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Welcome home, Evan Gershkovich! You’ve reminded us what a monster Putin is
New York Post ^ | Aug. 1, 2024 | Post Editorial Board

Posted on 08/02/2024 9:58:10 AM PDT by canuck_conservative

After almost 500 days of unjust captivity, The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich was released from a Russian prison Thursday, as were fellow prisoners including Paul Whelan, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alsu Kermasheva and 12 others in a massive multinational prisoner swap with Russia.

Gershkovich and Kermasheva are journalists, Kara-Murza a critic of the Ukraine war and Whelan a former Marine.

Not criminals or spies or other malefactors.

It comes, as was expected, at an enormously high cost.

Washington traded three prisoners back to Russia: Roman Seleznev, Vladislav Klyushin and Vadim Konoshchenock.

All are crooks of the highest order: a cyber criminal, a stock fraudster and an arms smuggler, respectively.

Another prisoner, not held in the US but released under the deal, was Vadim Krasikov, a Russian operative hitman serving a life sentence for the murder of a Chechen dissident in Germany.

In other words, Putin snatches innocent Americans and others off the streets and locks them away as potential trades for some of the worst people in the world.

Such was the case with the swap of arms dealer Viktor Bout for unjustly imprisoned US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner.

Aside from the high cost of the deal, it may inspire other bad actors to try the same thing against US citizens...

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: extortion; gangstertactics; hostages; putin
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Gangster methods

Kidnap innocent Western visitors under the bogus charge of "spying", then hold them hostage

1 posted on 08/02/2024 9:58:10 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

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2 posted on 08/02/2024 10:00:25 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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3 posted on 08/02/2024 10:08:03 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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To: canuck_conservative
A monster would have had Gershkovich killed in prison like Zelensky did with American citizen Gonzalo Lira.

Dozens of dissents are in prison in Ukraine, including leaders of opposition parties. Opposition media outlets have been banned. Churches have been destroyed. Civilians have been targeted.

And, US and Canadian tax dollars are supporting the Ukrainian atrocities.

4 posted on 08/02/2024 10:12:12 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: canuck_conservative

putin is pure evil

killing, bombing, torturing, raping etc etc

putin is proud of his evil


5 posted on 08/02/2024 10:16:31 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: canuck_conservative

Why do people visit Russia?


6 posted on 08/02/2024 10:18:24 AM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” -)
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To: canuck_conservative

Meanwhile in the USA, Biden’s DOJ sentences old women and young mothers to years in prison for minor disturbances at abortion clinics.


7 posted on 08/02/2024 10:18:40 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: canuck_conservative

This circus was done to make Harris look like a real leader and foreign policy expert. This will go into ads and the propaganda media will spew the lies. Putin FLEECED the West getting back a motley assortment of Russian bad guys. What America got back weren’t necessarily innocent patriots.


8 posted on 08/02/2024 10:18:44 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: canuck_conservative

Biden and Harris are bigger monsters. There is NO issue where Biden/Harris are not more evil than Putin

The US and US media need to remove the log from their own eye before complaining about the speck in the Russian eye


9 posted on 08/02/2024 10:18:50 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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I swear, it’s as if FR is a Russian based troll farm.

How the management and mods put up with this nonsense is baffling.

10 posted on 08/02/2024 10:25:25 AM PDT by Negan
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“unjustly imprisoned US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner.”

Ummm... Wasn’t she caught holding?


11 posted on 08/02/2024 10:28:02 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: canuck_conservative

Not to worry, the Biden Regime, the Post and you, can console yourselves with the number of innocent J6 prisoners dying without health care in US Government Prison Solitary Confinement.


12 posted on 08/02/2024 10:28:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Negan
Not Russian trolls but American patriots who are against foreign entanglements as George Washington cautioned us about.

If you don't like you can leave.

13 posted on 08/02/2024 10:39:08 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: canuck_conservative

It is disingenuous to say since someone is a “journalist,” that they can’t also be a spy, or an activist, or a terrorist.


14 posted on 08/02/2024 10:40:02 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Negan

Nobody believes your lies anymore, CIA


15 posted on 08/02/2024 10:45:01 AM PDT by pigeoninthepark
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To: canuck_conservative
... and that monster (Putin) will continue to do all he can to help F-Joe Biden's DEI VP (if she indeed is the nominee, which I think is far from a "sure thing" until after the convention) as it is in his (Putin's) best interest to do so.

Oh, Putin can work with Trump because he respects Trump ... not so with the DEI candidate ... no way, Sergei.

16 posted on 08/02/2024 10:50:13 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: Fai Mao

That is ridiculous on the face of it.


17 posted on 08/02/2024 10:53:54 AM PDT by Dat
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To: Negan

People here have gone off the deep end. That or they are directly working for the Russians. The FRussians are our version of the trannies.


18 posted on 08/02/2024 10:55:39 AM PDT by Dat
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To: CaptainK

To see what a White majority country is like.


19 posted on 08/02/2024 10:59:43 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Dat

It is absolutely true.

You cannot name an issue where Putin is worse than Biden.

Example #1: Putin invaded a neighboring county, Biden PAID invaders to invade his own country. That is worse than Putin

Example #2: For 30 years the US has been pushing Globohomo agenda and Perverts as normal people. That is worse than Putin.

The US is an evil place ruled ruled by child molesting, baby killing, faggot f@#King, perverts.

Biden is worse than Putin


20 posted on 08/02/2024 11:08:38 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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