Britney Griner released 12-08-2022

Cage1 said

It is a bit odd that we, as a rule, don't negotiate with terrorists. And yet, we just did, and basically did it contrary to all the overriding policy reasons for why we shouldn't, which is that it strengthens their resolve to keep doing this and it puts someone dangerous back into the world. I just don't understand why we violated our policy in this one instance for this one person.

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That's definitely fair and this is where you can get into criticisms of this I'd say as there was certainly more attention in general pointed towards Griner's imprisonment than Whelan's. Did that have an impact on who went home and who stayed and what they were willing to give up? I'd hope not but we all know that in reality that stuff can certainly play a role.

There's just so much we don't know about how this all went down that it's difficult for me to hold very defined feelings on it at the moment.