LeBron James is doing a public service by commenting on the Brittney Griner case – he is teaching Americans how little they now matter outside their own borders
LeBron James is a man of the world, but like a lot of Americans, his world ends at either coast.
Given that her other option is to stay in Russia, I’m going to guess the answer to that question is yes. It reflects a very 21st-century take on Manifest Destiny. America doesn’t want to control huge swaths of the world any more. That’s way too much responsibility. All the United States is asking is that everyone leaves it alone, while still doing exactly what it says when it says it.
America has spent the past 20 years alternately bombing the hell out of or giving up on the rest of the world. The only countries who still care what America thinks are the ones getting a monthly cheque. Russia isn’t one of them.Athletes are used to asking for things and then getting them. They always have been, but never more so than right now. If asking doesn’t work, then subtle threats do. On rare occasions, the nuclear option is required: ‘If you don’t do what I want, I won’t play.
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