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Sbubbert t1_je9gsz6 wrote

No US citizens should be in Russia. Period. Doesn't matter if you're a journalist or any other job. Everyone has had more than a year to get the fuck out. They know the risks of staying there. It sucks to say this, but we have to leave him there. No swaps. He should have known better. Anyone entering or staying in Russia past the beginning of March 2022 should be on their own, and should not expect the US gov to save them should they be detained.

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Miamime t1_je9qv4z wrote

Well, that’s the point of journalism. Sometimes you put yourself at risk to report on things that the public should know about. There’s a credo amongst hardcore journalists to put the truth above everything else.

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onlycatshere t1_jea0cqp wrote

Journalists like this take a calculated risk. They believe what they are reporting on is worth the chance of state abuse. To say he should have known better is incredibly patronizing

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buck70 t1_jebdsg6 wrote

>They believe what they are reporting on is worth the chance of state abuse. To say he should have known better is incredibly patronizing

That's fair. However, they should expect no help whatsoever from the US government. Otherwise, they are just giving the Russians free bargaining chips.

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ObjectivePitiful1170 t1_jef6rlx wrote

> However, they should expect no help whatsoever from the US government. Otherwise, they are just giving the Russians free bargaining chips.

They give U.S. citizen information. The citizen need them to make informed decisions. They are quite possibly the most important cog of a democracy. There should be no limit to resources needed to make them as safe as possible, to respond to a crisis, and to handle any threat to freedom of the press decisively and punitively.

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deadsoulinside t1_je9q1ag wrote

This is what I was thinking too. Russia has a history of making political prisoners for the sheer purpose of trying to force the US hand into some form of trade for the person back.

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