If I brought drugs into a hostile country and was caught

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22. In this case

In no way should Griner's coach be let off the hook. He neglected his due diligence.
Nor should the WNBA that sent them to Russia amidst worldwide sanctions be off the hook.

Worse, her coach and the WNBA were derelict, and/or didn't care about these facts:
-- they were vulnerable to surveillance from the moment they set foot on Russian land;
-- Russia wants us to trade a sports star for THE biggest arms dealer on the planet -- Viktor Bout. Russia wants him to help Putin beat Ukraine, among other things. Maybe if the U.S. swapped Bout after giving him a lobotomy...

Griner's coach should have kept a better eye on her, and prepared her to deal with the country he put her in. In this case, an American life, weighed against the costs to the whole planet, might not get home. This could be one of those times.

If we ever get Griner home, her coach should lose his job, at the very least, and at the most, charged with something, not sure what. The WNBA should be heavily fined for its failure to honor sanctions.