“We’re no longer in contact and I can’t comment on his current mental state or personal family matters.”

No comment was needed. “We’re no longer in contact and I can’t comment on his current mental state or personal family matters.”

Why does this woman keep inserting herself like her opinions matter? Is she still on Kanye’s payroll or something? She “dated” him for a week. Are we asking all his groupies for their assessments of his mental state, or just the ones who desperately want to be relevant?

I couldn’t get through this movie, and I can’t tell that guy apart from all the other Hollywood guys with similar faces.

Yeah that is a big question, American citizens & diplomats were already leaving Russia en masse at that point. I wonder if she was trying to leave and got stopped, and (if so) how many other people could be in the same boat.

I know quite well what the Vienna Convention is and the lack of intervention options the US State Dept has in foreign judicial processes. My comment didn’t even address that, and telling people to “read up a little” is condescending. My point was that we know very little about this particular case, the diplomatic…

The war didn’t “break out”, it was a planned invasion in the works for years. And I don’t think we can assume anything, that’s my point. We don’t know where she is, she isn’t allowed to speak on her own behalf, she hasn’t even gotten a trial yet. The presumption of guilt in these comments (from bystanders far away in…

Yup. The US wouldn’t publicly engage in negotiations with ISIS when they were openly kidnapping & beheading American citizens. What makes anyone think they’re going to publicly negotiate with the nation of Russia based on a Change.org petition??

You read a Russian police press release, because that’s all you’re at liberty to read. But people still are afforded due process even in Russian courts, so your immediate assumption of guilt here (and the number of people upvoting you, suggesting they also assume guilt before due process) is telling.

Yeah I didn’t want to say it but there’s a lot of cultural ignorance in these comments. Russia doesn’t do public executions.

The “Team America: World Police” mentality is always a sure sign someone’s geopolitical knowledge hasn’t progressed past 7th grade.

Congratulations on the baby. I’m so tired of these two.

We need to collectively stop trying to rescue these self-loathing white-worshipping brown men. Tell him to take his apologies, fuck off and go call Becky with the good hair. I’m guessing white women don’t want to deal with their bum asses either but hey, go shoot your shot with the ones you really want bro! Let us…

Their political coverage on the unfolding situation with Russia lately has been brutally bad, almost unreadable. But I don’t think they pay enough for decent war journalists lol. It’s pretty obvious these are young entry level writers and complex geopolitical conflicts are far above their pay grade.

Whew, this comment section. Blindly believing Russian authorities’ story about a detainee who isn’t permitted to speak a word on her own behalf. Disbelieving a hostile foreign country could fabricate or fudge charges against a high-profile American citizen for hostage-taking purposes during wartime. Blaming her for…

I’m not sure if the Amanda Knox case is the one you want to go with here, since she was detained and dragged through bullshit publicity stunt trials in a foreign country for years and the US could do nothing until that country’s courts set her free. In general the US can do little if its citizens get involved in foreig…

If anything it can only make her situation worse, as Russian authorities will definitely see her as a valuable hostage worth keeping as a bargaining chip if Americans start freaking out en masse and demanding her release.

Yeah the author seems to have concluded nobody cares because they’re staying quiet, when there are a ton of legitimate reasons to keep an unfolding hostage situation quiet (including the risk of media attention raising the hostage’s value in the eyes of their captors.)

Omg, they are coming out of the woodwork tell on themselves today. It says a LOT that they’re willing to just believe the word of Russian authorities and go out of their way to attack & blame an indefinitely detained hostage whose condition and whereabouts aren’t even known. Not only do they trust the police over…

I really don’t think we can assume it wasn’t planted with so little information about the case, especially during wartime when Russia is very likely looking for American hostages as leverage.