Quite so. And I don't care that Mr. Whelan is no angel. An American unjustly imprisoned by a dictator is an American unjustly imprisoned by a dictator. And that dictator knows how to make his RW useful idiots dance.
@Shelter Putin knew what he was doing by not releasing Whelan. He knew the firestorm it would raise among his useless idiots.
I agree.
Man I wish those stairs had tried harder.
@LiberalLibrarian are you aware that he is also a citizen of Great Britain, Ireland, and Canada? And they haven’t been able to get him out either? I’ve been doing some research and it appears that the Russians want the Germans to release someone in exchange for him, and the Germans won’t release him because he’s in prison for murder.
If four countries can’t get him out because the Russians want somebody that the Germans won’t release, it’s not our failure.
@J_Windrow Oh, yes, I know. I'm just saying that Pres. Biden not being able to get him out is on Putin, not on Biden. Putin knew releasing Griner and not Whelan would get the RW wurlitzer grinding.
@LiberalLibrarian Russia will never release all of the American prisoners because then they would have no leverage
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I get very tired of values being assigned to human beings.