Free Brittney Griner: What could come next after the WNBA star's arrest in Russia

Hello Ms. Griner. You beat Russia in the Olympics, yes? I'm going to need to check your luggage.

Typical Russian move, arrest some high profile individual on trumped up charge, and hold as a barter chip down the road.

She should have left sooner. But us old farts remember the old Soviet Union and how they do things. Unfortunately the recent history from 1960 to now is barely taught in school. My mother born in germany in 1931 grew up under Hitler. She was friends with a german lady who married a GI. When he retired she had already gotten her masters and was a history professor. She ask my mom to come with her to class two times to give first hand knowledge of living under a totalitarian regime. Some of the questions were real dumb due the couldn't look at the timeframes without applying today's free information availability. They had a hard time wrapping their heads around government controlled press and only newsreels, newspapers and radio station to get info from. And now I quote one of my favorite sayings. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DONT KNOW....