Posted on 07/27/2022 2:00:20 PM PDT by McGruff
The Biden administration has formally asked Moscow to make a deal aimed at bringing home WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, both of whom are imprisoned in Russia on dubious charges.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed Wednesday that U.S. officials presented Russia with a “significant proposal” weeks ago relating Ms. Griner and Mr. Whelan, but declined to confirm reports that the Biden administration is proposing to swap the two for notorious Russian arms dealer Victor Bout, who is in prison in the United States.
A report by CNN Wednesday claimed that after months of internal debate, the administration decided recently to offer to exchange Ms. Griner and Mr. Whelan for Bout, who is serving a 25-year sentence in Illinois for selling weapons to Marxist rebels in Colombia and conspiring to kill U.S. nationals.
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Yeah. Like all the arms and $$$ to Ukraine....probably ending up on the black market.
Not as bad as Obama giving the Taliban 4 of their generals in exchange for an Army deserted, but still a bad trade.
But LeBron said she didn’t want to come back, or something like that. We really need more overpaid whiners to kneel for the anthem. It doesn’t seem to offend the 20 or so people who watch WNBA games.
What if Russia offers to trade Paul Whelan for the arms dealer, but not Griner? What would Biden do?
all the arms and $$$ to Ukraine....probably ending up on the black market.
And Joey gets his 10%.
Yep. And his son...hookers and blow. And it is PREVALENT over there. Don’t ask me how I know. 😬
My best suggestion for a site would be Big Diomede Island (Russia) and Little Diomede Island (USA).
2.4 miles apart - would some sort of temporary bridge work or would they need boats?
Or even the Finland/Russia border
We need a better president.
In fact Bout didn’t do a thing like this, it was a questionable FBI sting. Whelan and Griner are guilty as sin.
Russia says no deal “yet” on Griner, Whelan prisoner swap
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-says-no-deal-yet-on-griner-whelan-prisoner-swap/
Update of sorts:
‘Russia makes prisoner counter-proposal to US’
https://www.rt.com/news/559879-russia-swap-prisoners-us/
Russia has asked the US to add Vadim Krasikov to the trade package......
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