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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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