She was an idiot to go to Russia in the first place. It was like a week before the start of the Ukraine invasion, but it wasn’t like the signs weren’t already there, they’d already done it a few years before with barely any western response, and international tensions were extremely high. The US state department was advising their citizens to leave Russia. Additionally, Russia is incredibly homophobic. She had a million things telling her not to go there, and not only did she not listen but compounded the issue by giving them a legal reason to use her. Even though it was terrible of them to imprison her and use her as a pawn, this felt like a case of a famous person thinking they should get special treatment from the very start, which in the end is exactly what happened.
She was an idiot to go to Russia in the first place. It was like a week before the start of the Ukraine invasion, but it wasn’t like the signs weren’t already there, they’d already done it a few years before with barely any western response, and international tensions were extremely high. The US state department was advising their citizens to leave Russia. Additionally, Russia is incredibly homophobic. She had a million things telling her not to go there, and not only did she not listen but compounded the issue by giving them a legal reason to use her. Even though it was terrible of them to imprison her and use her as a pawn, this felt like a case of a famous person thinking they should get special treatment from the very start, which in the end is exactly what happened.