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 ...
Kidnap innocent Western visitors under the bogus charge of "spying", then hold them hostage
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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.
putin is pure evil
killing, bombing, torturing, raping etc etc
putin is proud of his evil
Why do people visit Russia?
Meanwhile in the USA, Biden’s DOJ sentences old women and young mothers to years in prison for minor disturbances at abortion clinics.
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.
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
How the management and mods put up with this nonsense is baffling.
“unjustly imprisoned US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner.”
Ummm... Wasn’t she caught holding?
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.
If you don't like you can leave.
It is disingenuous to say since someone is a “journalist,” that they can’t also be a spy, or an activist, or a terrorist.
Nobody believes your lies anymore, CIA
Oh, Putin can work with Trump because he respects Trump ... not so with the DEI candidate ... no way, Sergei.
That is ridiculous on the face of it.
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.
To see what a White majority country is like.
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
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