Play stupid games...

[Jolly]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wnba-star-brittney-griner-detained-223416896.html

[jon-nyc]

It might even be true.

I could see it just as easily either way.

[Copper]

Based on a quick scan of the first paragraph I say she is guilty.

But she does appear to be female so she is innocent.

[Jolly]

She left after a travel advisory was given by the government. Probably playing in the off-season for another Russian or European team.

[jon-nyc]

It’s funny I went to Russia briefly in 2019.

I remember thinking when I was contemplating the trip that there’s a small chance Russia would do something in the Baltic states (I thought) and we as Americans could get caught up in it somehow.

It wasn’t a serious enough thought for me to really contemplate not going, but I did think about it.

I definitely would have given that hard hard thought in Feb 2022. I’m pretty confident I wouldn’t have planned such a trip in 2022.

(For the record, when I went to Ukraine in 2004, I had no such concerns)