A Greater Appreciation

During a recent episode of the podcast, “The Shop: Uninterrupted,” LeBron James, who never misses an opportunity to disparage America, said that WNBA star, Brittney Griner who is imprisoned in Russia, should feel like, “Do I even want to go back to America?”  Apparently, Lebron believes that America is to blame for what has happened to Brittney Griner. It was not her fault that she made the conscious decision to violate Russia’s drug laws; it was not Russia’s fault for railroading her into prison. It’s 100% America’s fault. America is to blame. America is the reason why Brittney Griner used drugs in Russia, and that Russia is a totalitarian regime with no due process. That is all America’s fault. Next, LeBron will blame America for the Uyghur concentration camps in China.

Apparently, LeBron believes that the United States should have already gotten Brittney Griner released from Russian. He believes that should have been very easy. It is not as if Russia is at war with one of our allies, and it is not as if we have been supporting their enemy with tens of billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry to fight that war, and it is not like we have placed crippling sanctions on Russia’s economy. None of that should matter. We should have simply made one phone call to Vladimir Putin, and she would have been released within 24 hours. I guess we did not do that because we are racists.

It is true that Russia is willing to swap Brittney Griner for a Russian that we have in prison, but we are hesitant. LeBron believes we should have already made that prisoner swap. He doesn’t care that the person the Russians want in exchange is a convicted terrorist and arms trafficker Viktor Bout, whose murderous exploits have earned him the nickname the “Merchant of Death”, convicted in 2008, and sentenced to 25 years for conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, delivery of anti-aircraft missiles and providing aid to a terrorist organization.