Brittney Griner has been freed

[Goodheart]

According to MSNBC

[samnsara]

1. oh thats what the big announcement is gonna be...

..now I can turn the channel.

glad for her..must have been hard.






Fck Putin...

[ColinC]

3. This makes me very very happy.

I hope she able to get all of the therapy and support she will need for that horribly traumatic experience.

[superpatriotman]

2. Here's a link CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/brittney-griner-release-russia-prisoner-swap-viktor-bout/

[we can do it]

5. Delete this

[BlackSkimmer]

7. Why?

Do you think the other American aren’t as imported?

Why?

[Effete Snob]

11. Well, gee

A whole lot of Americans were imported.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Lol.

Yep.

[ChazII]

13. Good question. n/t

[Solomon]

6. Now why you gotta do that?

Damn.

[BlackSkimmer]

8. DU never disappoints.

Fascinating.

[Goodheart]

10. That's an important question.

Could we have insisted on more? I doubt it. I see this as a negotiation success. The way I see it is that Viktor Bout is disposable to Putin; as bizarre as it seems I don't think Viktor Bout is as important to Russia as Brittney Griner is to the USA.

[Goodheart]

15. Because we are the USA. Our people are not supposed to be disposable.

That's not the same in Russia. Viktor Bout is not so important to a dictator; Putin can easily get himself a new arms dealer.

Doesn't matter that she's an NBA star or famous. She might as well have been a tourist... we're supposed to cherish our citizens.

[BlackSkimmer]

21. Except that the non-famous people are still there.

Do you get that?

[Effete Snob]

23. Those are citizens we don't "cherish"

Russia got their arms merchant back, and may be able to get their hands on more sophisticated weapons with which to kill Ukrainians.

But I love this "we're supposed to cherish our citizens". Ummm.. I don't "cherish" them all in this country, let alone ones I see abroad who act as if being an American is an exemption from acting like a decent human.

[TheBeam19]

16. Paul Whelan left behind yet again.

Jonathan Franks was just on CNN talking about how this is at least the third time under two presidential administrations that this has happened to Whelan. That has to be awful for him and his family.

[JI7]

20. Famous people will always get more media attention. There was someone released before Brittany Grin

and that didn't get much attention either.

[Torchlight]

9. Heartening to hear.

I'm guessing the right wing will do its best to minimize this good news or turn it into a story about something else.

[Kingofalldems]

24. They already are and one doesn't have to go far to see it.

[Torchlight]

26. Granted, I'd guessed only the RW would throw stuff a the wall about this

But maybe some are just feeling sulky today and letting a bad morning get the better.

Grandad would always laugh off people's crotchety moods with "it's tougher than you think making the switch to decaff." I try to too, but yeah, I get where you're coming from.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Right wingers freaking out

Mad that the white guy convicted of spying is still there, but we traded an arms dealer for a pothead minority.

That's what they're saying. FOXNews is going to go apeshit.

[JI7]

18. A white guy was released earlier on when Griner was still held

[Goodheart]

19. Fuck 'em.

Operationally I don't think releasing Viktor Bout makes one bit of difference to Russian arms sales and terriorism. Without Bout it would simply be a case of next man up.... with dictators nobody is indispensable.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. From Paul Whelan's brother

Link to tweet

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