(10-03-2023, 07:21 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-02-2023, 11:08 PM)Sneakers Wrote: Sorry, I should have said competence, not experience.   Congratulations on your Prius, I hope you got a better deal for it than Biden got for Griner.  

P.S.  I do have friends and a couple of them are actually Democrats!  Can you believe it?  Even they recognize what a terrible trade it was.  I'm surprised that someone with your vast negotiating experience can't see that reality.

I agree that it wasn't a great deal to trade someone who had like 15 years left on their sentence for someone who had 9, especially when Griner's sentence would have only been like a month if she was a Russian citizen. It's not fair or right.
Biden could have left them both in jail waiting for a better deal, or he could have imposed additional economic sanctions, then offered to remove them in exchange for the prisoners. No guarantee that either tactic works, though. 
My buddy at work, I thought he got a bad deal on his house. He thought so too.  "I should have waited until the market cooled down" he said at the time. He bought in 2020.  Look at him now.
In any case, even if Biden did negotiate poorly, it has nothing to do with kneeling or being black or being gay.

You're missing the key point; it has everything to do with it.  Go back and read Biscuit's post, he summed it up perfectly.  A heterosexual, white male (who was stupid enough to smuggle cannabis into Russia) would still be there, and we would still have Bout.  But then, manna fell from the heavens in the form of Britney Griner.

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