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

US swinging its dick around in that manner over one dude who ran one fraudulent company isn't worth it for the US.



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



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.




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