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Ukraine: WAR Huh - What Is It Good For Absorootly Nothing

dtfd

Autocross Champion
I haven't been following this story very closely because it's more of a human interest side show rather than real news but feel free to correct me if I misunderstood something here.

She was arrested for bringing marijuana through airport security into Russia (where the drug is illegal). The news and state department has decided we care about her (but not any other American citizen arrested abroad for drug smuggling) and are willing to trade an arms dealer with the Russians to get her back?

Meanwhile hundreds of people still sit in jail in the united states for marijuana related drug charges and who knows how many are sitting in foreign jails for smuggling. Is it just because she's a professional athlete that people care?
 

uglybastard

Autocross Champion
I haven't been following this story very closely because it's more of a human interest side show rather than real news but feel free to correct me if I misunderstood something here.

She was arrested for bringing marijuana through airport security into Russia (where the drug is illegal). The news and state department has decided we care about her (but not any other American citizen arrested abroad for drug smuggling) and are willing to trade an arms dealer with the Russians to get her back?

Meanwhile hundreds of people still sit in jail in the united states for marijuana related drug charges and who knows how many are sitting in foreign jails for smuggling. Is it just because she's a professional athlete that people care?
Also worth noting that she's openly lesbian in a country with regressive views on that kinda thing
 

cb1111

Newbie
I haven't been following this story very closely because it's more of a human interest side show rather than real news but feel free to correct me if I misunderstood something here.

She was arrested for bringing marijuana through airport security into Russia (where the drug is illegal). The news and state department has decided we care about her (but not any other American citizen arrested abroad for drug smuggling) and are willing to trade an arms dealer with the Russians to get her back?

Meanwhile hundreds of people still sit in jail in the united states for marijuana related drug charges and who knows how many are sitting in foreign jails for smuggling. Is it just because she's a professional athlete that people care?

Also worth noting that she's openly lesbian in a country with regressive views on that kinda thing
And she has said really negative things about the US.

On the flip side, the Russians are clearly using this for propaganda purposes but she was an idiot to:
a: go there
b: go there with drugs
 

cb1111

Newbie
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