"US blacklisting Bahamas with the various tools at its disposal isn’t worth it for Bahamas."

Really for SBF? Removing financial systems? I think this is a far stretch. Fraudsters are held up in extradition messes all the time. The US doesn't change international policy for a single case (usually).

We are talking about a country that just traded an infamous arms dealer for a WNBA player...

Oh, that like, just happened:

https://apnews.com/article/brittney-griner-freed-viktor-bout...

What are you trying to imply?

We "overpayed" for her and everyone knows it. Getting taken advantage of is kind of the opposite of putting pressure on another country to make them do something that's a crap deal for them.

That was an incredible deal for Russia. The cost of that woman's mistake was pretty steep, she should be very grateful.

I just hope my country has some Americans locked up in case I mistakenly bring some herb with me to USA.

Depends on optics. This is controlled by executive branch and if they want portray themselves as hard on corruption, they’ll do it. You’ll see this on Americans arrested overseas. If it makes the media, the executive branch will flex its power. Just happened today with the basketball player caught with drugs in Russia.