The article discusses the cases of EU diplomat Johan Floderus, Iranian-Swedish dual national Saeed Azizi, and Canadian consultant Michael Spavor, all of whom were detained in hostile countries and later released. The author argues that these cases highlight the risks that Westerners face when traveling to such countries, and that despite these risks, many people still choose to travel there.
Annoying_Rooster on
I can understand the difficulty of say an Iranian-American who still has family back home and risks arrest just to go see them, but there’s been an uptick in moron’s who go to a country that American’s aren’t welcome to and then act surprised when they get arrested and accused of being a spy.
And I’m not talking about like a journalist (Evan Gershkovich) but an active duty US Soldier is in a prison colony in Siberia because he lied on his leave to go meet with his Russian girlfriend and we don’t have another arm’s dealer to trade for him. At worst some people travel to these countries because they think it’ll impress their friends or internet viewers.
Those people we should just leave to their own device as cold as it sounds. Ignorance isn’t an excuse.
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The article discusses the cases of EU diplomat Johan Floderus, Iranian-Swedish dual national Saeed Azizi, and Canadian consultant Michael Spavor, all of whom were detained in hostile countries and later released. The author argues that these cases highlight the risks that Westerners face when traveling to such countries, and that despite these risks, many people still choose to travel there.
I can understand the difficulty of say an Iranian-American who still has family back home and risks arrest just to go see them, but there’s been an uptick in moron’s who go to a country that American’s aren’t welcome to and then act surprised when they get arrested and accused of being a spy.
And I’m not talking about like a journalist (Evan Gershkovich) but an active duty US Soldier is in a prison colony in Siberia because he lied on his leave to go meet with his Russian girlfriend and we don’t have another arm’s dealer to trade for him. At worst some people travel to these countries because they think it’ll impress their friends or internet viewers.
Those people we should just leave to their own device as cold as it sounds. Ignorance isn’t an excuse.