During the height of the British Empire in the mid 19th century, the Brits and Russia engaged in what was euphemistically called "The Great Game" on the borders of what is now India and Pakistan and the Russian Empire. It was mostly in the context of spying on one another and trying to destabilize each other's territory.
The US and Russia are playing a variation of that same game with the exchange of Britney Griner for a Russian arms dealer. Victor Bout had already served 10 years of a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking, while Griner was beginning a 9 year sentence for alledgely having a few grams of cannabis oil in her luggage. The Russians had the advantage over their US counterparts due to Griner's sympathetic story. They won this particular episode of the great game.
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