“There are a number of governments and countries… we have asked to convey just how serious we are.”
Just how big of a footprint did Brittney Griner’s supersized sneakers have on the Biden administration’s foreign policy… as opposed to the 17 other Americans locked up in Russia and the hundreds around the world?
Hating the Saudi Crown Prince and the UAE is mandatory among leftists even since they turned on the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of Obama’s disastrous Arab Spring coups. Saint Khashoggi is invoked as the only martyr that they believe in anymore. But Khashoggi had to step back for Brittney Griner.
Biden, fearful about the midterms, trooped down to try and talk the Saudis into an energy price deal, but failed. He did however secure their intervention for his woke leftist racist base.
The landmark prison swap that freed WNBA star Brittney Griner from a Russian gulag Thursday was brokered by none other than the notorious Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it was revealed Thursday.
The role of the crown prince, widely known as MBS, in the sensitive negotiations was outlined in a joint statement released by the foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
“The success of the mediation efforts was a reflection of the mutual and solid friendship between their two countries and the United States of America and the Russian Federation,” the two countries wrote.
The exchange was made in Abu Dhabi: which makes the role of the UAE very obvious. Publicly, the Biden administration has managed to anonymously snub the Saudis.
A White House official declined to elaborate on MBS’ role in Griner’s release, saying: “There are a number of governments and countries that throughout the horrific ordeal that Brittany has been through … we have asked to convey just how serious we are about resolving these cases once and for all, and I’ll leave the details of that out. But I would say that we do engage with a wide range of countries so that the Russians hear from a wide range of sources about our commitment to resolving what a priority that again.”
Clearly, it was a priority. And a top-tier one. Above most foreign policy priorities. Brittney Griner was so top drawer that she displaced Khashoggi in the Biden administration’s priorities. The only other thing that did that was the midterms. But the two are connected. Biden doesn’t care about Griner, per se, but she’s another means of rallying his woke base. And a way to remind them that Biden’s priorities are racially tribal. He’s got their back.
The Biden administration went pleading with every country around the world to help them get their woke anti-American pothead out of the clink, further degrading this country and our international status.
How many other Americans held abroad get this treatment?
Your average American locked up on drug charges will be ignored by the administration. Unless they are very politically connected, the secretary of state will never hear their names. Let alone the president.
This is what completely unequal justice looks like. Also known as “equity.”
Walter Sieruk says
Just last night ,12/13/22,, on Conservative talk radio it was said that t”the major reason thta Biden swapped that basketball instead of the US Marine for that ‘merchant of death’ was because Putin viewed the American Marine as much more valuable than the other prisoner and therefore wanted much more the exchange if would be the Marine.”
If that statement is true then this means that Putin ,rightly , recognized the far greater worth of that American Marine has much more value than that pot headed BLM fan basketball player.
Walter Sieruk says
Maybe Joe Biden was waiting for an excuse to get the “merchant of death ” freed because he a just as wicked as him.
As it has been ,wisely, said that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So all that any foreign rogues need to do is abduct a member of the US LGBTQIA+ group – preferably an intersectional person – and you’ll get Biden to do what you want. Pretty brilliant. Russia could even have gotten the US to switch sides on the Ukraine war using this technique, while exchanging Whalen for Bout
Alkflaeda says
Quite – and they could take it a step further….”we will guarantee your freedom if you come out as having been LGBTQIA+ all along, but having concealed it due to oppression…” After all, if you can up the value of your bargaining chip simply by reimagining some aspects of their personal life, what’s not to like?
James Lincoln says
Just waiting to see how long it will be before Brittney Griner starts trashing the United States…
Westman says
Maybe that was a learning experience?
I never can understand the tattoos all over athlete players arms and legs. They don’t offer the appearance of desirable role models, though the athlete may have stellar character, and certainly it sends the wrong image of US athletes to other nations.
Arrests for drugs, violence, or being shot while associating with the old neighborhood friends doesn’t help the sports image. When people start making up new names for the NBA and NFL, there is a problem.
It must be difficult for team owners to concentrate only on winning, with the best gladiators they can find, while being forced to puchase expensive insurance to protect against lawsuits caused by a few players personal-time behavior.
Scotsman48 says
Americans need to learn that if they break the Laws of another country then they must get the exact same treatment as a person from that country and it is an insult to the people of Russia that an American gets out of Jail early whereas a Russian busted under the same charge will serve their sentence to its end.
Victor Bout never killed a single American, never pointed a Gun at a single American.
He was, allegedly, selling weapons to people and countries that Uncle Sam was not allowed to sell too and let us remember who the Afghani islamic warriors were getting their weapons from when they were fighting the Russian occupation of their country.
They,Bout and Uncle Sam, were selling the exact same weapons.
The biggest Freelance Weapons Dealer in the world is an obese Saudi Arabian Citizen called Kasshoggi, yeah same family, and lives in Northern California safe and secure in a town called Woodside with neighbors like the Shah of Iran Family,Casper Weinberger, George Shultz and the Recording Studio of Niel Young who lives close by.
Who is the bad guy here…. Asking for a friend…