Viktor Bout, known as The Merchant of Death, for his
notorious career as an arms dealer – has been freed
from an American prison and allowed to return to
Russia – thanks to the Biden White House trading
him for WNBA player, Brittney Griner. Brittney
endangers Americans in her own way, as you will
hear, but Bout endangers the world, as he may well
return to his old ways of selling weapons for fun and
profit to terrorists (unless Putin appoints him to
some job where his ruthlessness would come in
handy.)
In this podcast, we take a look at the colorful
background of each of the contenders for this swap,
so YOU can decide – by the end – whether it should
have been Brittney Griner or Paul Whelan who
was traded for Viktor Bout, or whether Biden
shouldn’t have freed Bout under any circumstances.
Though Brittney is a star basketball player, she’s
also anti-American, calling for the National Anthem
to no longer be played at any games! She was
convicted for smuggling drugs into Russia, albeit her
own, and she knew – or should have known – that
would get her in trouble.
Paul Whelan is a former Marine, who served for
years – including in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He
was convicted for alleged espionage in Moscow,
but the circumstances are murky.
Before you decide who should have been
swapped, consider this: a former U.S. national
security adviser says that the Biden administration’s
deal with with Russia was “not a deal… not a swap.
This is a surrender.”
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