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OP-ED: Brittney Griner Trade Shows Who The Real Suckers At The Table Are
The Free Press ^ | 12/11/2022 | Simon Hankinson

Posted on 12/11/2022 11:41:11 AM PST by Conservativetpa

There’s an old joke among poker players: if you can’t find the sucker at the table, it’s you. While it’s wonderful to see an American civilian released from an unjustly long sentence in a foreign land, it must be said that the Biden administration just revealed who was the sucker in its negotiations to release Brittney Griner from the Russian gulag.

Let me state up front: I am glad “BG,” as her wife Cherelle calls her, is coming home.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampafp.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bout; griner; russia; us

1 posted on 12/11/2022 11:41:11 AM PST by Conservativetpa
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2 posted on 12/11/2022 11:44:41 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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I’m not going to any Britney Griner Trade Show no matter how much the sinks are on sale.


3 posted on 12/11/2022 11:45:28 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Just viewed an interview of Viktor Bout, commenting on the suicide of the west, with LGBTQ+ in the schools down to the 1st grade, being indoctrinated that there are 72 genders.

What a trade, on so many levels.


4 posted on 12/11/2022 11:48:17 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Conservativetpa

Was her sentence “un just” based on Rooski practice? Was the charge un just?


5 posted on 12/11/2022 11:57:29 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Conservativetpa

BG and company will be dining out on this for the rest of his/her life.


6 posted on 12/11/2022 12:03:44 PM PST by xp38 (!)
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The Russians knew what they were doing when they threw the book at her. Russians are happy the United States is destroying itself with woeness:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4115122/posts


7 posted on 12/11/2022 12:24:17 PM PST by packagingguy
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8 posted on 12/11/2022 1:02:56 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Victor Bout was in year 14 of a 16 year sentence. His trade value was declining rapidly as he was due for release soon anyway.

Trading Bout for Paul Whelan would have been considered a slap at the Democrat base so folks shouldn’t be too surprised Biden went for Griner.


9 posted on 12/11/2022 3:22:35 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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Victor Bout was in year 14 of a 16 year sentence. His trade value was declining rapidly as he was due for release soon anyway.

The accompanying article states, At the time of his swap, he had 15 years left on his 25-year sentence.

10 posted on 12/11/2022 3:29:39 PM PST by Robwin ( )
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“And what this trade tells us is that Biden places left-wing ideology ahead of all other national interests. It explains this administration’s total refusal to enforce border laws, and its insistence on pushing radical gender ideology on health providers, schools, sports and even diplomacy and the U.S. military.”.............This *dministration has no ideals, so you can hardly accuse him/them of ideology; Biden is just a con man and a crook, who is not making these decisions anyway. What we are talking about here is BHO’s ideology, that’s who’s making all these decisions.


11 posted on 12/12/2022 1:05:12 AM PST by Segovia
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yup


12 posted on 12/12/2022 8:21:20 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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