Americans simply want to adopt children, with Russia being a significant provider. Russia could decide to cease being a provider, which would be a blow to any number of American couples currently in the process of adopting. As such, no purpose is served by antagonizing Russia over this issue.
It's a sad situation. But regardless of the child's issues, I think reasonable person will agree that putting a child you legally adopted on a plane by himself to travel halfway around the world with a note saying “I don't want him,” after having had him for only seven months, is inappropriate. I think the world respects the United States State Department for acknowledging that more than it would belligerence over the indefensible act of a single citizen.
“The collectivist mentality of the Russians makes them blame the USA as a whole for the incident – not just the individual who committed the crime.”
The MSM is doing the same thing with the Tea Party.
At least he was not on a flight from Poland.
Russian media is state run. Let the mouthpiece of Putins one party system post all the fake outrage they want.
It is a corrupt system and some of the children are held in deplorable conditions. I have a friend whose family adopted an older girl from Russia. She was not an orphan. Her mother was an alcoholic and her grandmother took her to the orphanage and abandoned her. The family found out later that after the grandmother/mother approved of the adoption, they told this child that it was her job to go to America and send money back to them. The family that adopted her almost mentioned a few "payoffs" that they had to go through during the final adoption trip. Paperwork gets lost...you know the drill. I'm sure that's no surprise.
Adoption is a big cash income, the Russians are not going to give that up.
All they want is to make some PR points and unload what in the Deep South was known as “problem children”.
In commerce terms, the Russians who supplied a child with issues they knew were serious but failed to disclose were no different than any other merchant supplying known defective goods or services.
Fraud, improper enrichment, etc.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a great opportunity was lost to create a massive mutual tourism program between the US and Russia. Even heavily subsidized, Americans should have flooded Russia, and Russians should have flooded America.
Had it lasted for just a decade, the benefits to both nations would have been incredible. Vast areas in Russia, full of unexploited resources, picturesque forests and lush farmland would have been irresistible to American developers, who would have been building entire cities, and making themselves and Russia tremendously prosperous overnight.
For their part, the Russians would have become enamored with American technology and abundance, style and design, and, strangely enough, environmentalism, which Russia desperately needs. They would be open to a hundred Americanized cuisines, entertainment, opulence and liberty.
It would have been a heck of a decade.
Bottom line: she's lying.