Britney Griner released 12-08-2022

We have made multiple attempts to get Whelan back. Russia has declined every thing we have offered. Anything else on the matter is irrelevant.

Not really sure why people are getting outraged over this. We got an American returned home. We tried to get them both, but the people holding them refused to even consider releasing one of them.

Bout will almost certainly get caught again if he falls back into his old life. I wouldn't be surprised to find him mysteriously dead in a few months. This is Russia we're talking about here. He was also expected to be released in a couple years for good behavior, so Russia really didn't even need to make a trade. They could have just waited a couple years to get him back. The fact that Biden was able to trade away someone who was about to be free anyway is pretty impressive.