Look up Audrey Eliza Lorber she was caught in 2019 in Russia with 19 grams and they released her for $325 so I guess Britney didn't have the complexion for protection. The US was trying to get their spy back with Britney initially before she was sentenced to prison and they probably did too much and had to give them someone. I'm not sure if people know this but USA lost the Cold War. The Korean War and Vietnam war was the result of the subtle feud between USA and Russia as both of them sponsored the wars and we know the result of those wars. USA was embarrassed...they won't teach it in school but in college it's like public knowledge.
Here is the irony. The U.S. and Russia (USSR) have fought as allies in both World Wars and after WW2 they have fought 'proxy wars' against each other. As you noted the Korean and Vietnam war was a proxy war. But also when the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979, it was America's time to fight a proxy war and the 10 years the Russians (and other Soviet Bloc) nations were there, it imploded the already fragile Russian economy.
America is now fighting a proxy war in Ukraine. And before this a quasi proxy war in Syria.
Griner's arrest is part of that tit for tat, proxy war. The media knows this and the main media, at least the liberal side of it, was trying to paint it as something else. The right wing is now a fan of Russia. Shockingly, the right wing was the most anti Russian a decade or so before and prior. What changed? Putin is a white nationalist. And the right wing has changed from being super pro America, to super pro white nationalist and pro white birthrate and anyone white who thinks that way is now an ally. Ideology is no longer the defining thing for white right wingers its if you are pro white birthrate, nationalism or not. That's it. Nothing else matters because they believe they are in a existential threat for survival. Not really true but that's what they believe. There are just too many white people hundreds of millions for them to die out anytime soon. But in white minds, not having complete control equals non survival.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the youngest continent of all 5 continents. They are scared sh*tless of that. If the birthrate in 'Black' Africa continues in a linear fashion about 20-25 percent of the global population will be black by 2050.
Africa’s unprecedented population growth will impact geopolitics, global trade, migration and almost every aspect of life. It’s time for a reimagining of the continent
www.theguardian.com
And the so called white population will be vastly outnumbered. I have my theories on why these numbers won't pan out to be that but blacks will be significantly more.
White folks are triggered. Russia has wavered between the lowest and near lowest white birthrate for a while now. In fact, they pay Russian women to have babies. They also have the lowest life expectancy for their males as well. Its an uphill battle.