Putin may think he won this round with the U.S., but that doesn't mean we should.
Brittney Griner's long-awaited return to the U.S. after nearly 10 months in Russian prison is cause for celebration. Still, many critics of Joe Biden are calling the WNBA star's homecoming a win for Russia, and the time it's taken to bring her back a failure of the Biden administration. Nayyera Haq argues that it's more complicated than that. "Deepening America's racial divides is part of a long-standing Soviet playbook," writes Haq. Drawing on a historical pattern of the Soviet government courting Black intellectuals in the 1930s, and more recently the 2016 Russia disinformation campaign to infiltrate Black Lives Matter, she writes that "Putin found in one person the intersections of American identity he needed: a Black, married lesbian woman who uses marijuana and has a large social media following, to use as the latest pawn in Russia's long-standing strategy of wielding America's diversity to hurt us."
Haq suggests that Putin may think he won this round, but Biden proved the United States honors the rule of law on the world stage, "making it clear that political prisoners are people first — and that people deserve the support of their governments." Read Nayyera Haq's full analysis in your Friday MSNBC Daily. |
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This week on "Into America," Trymaine Lee travels to River Road in Bethesda, Maryland, to learn about the ongoing fight to save the Moses Macedonia African Cemetery. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
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