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US Swaps Russian Arms Dealer Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner
Newsmax ^ | December 8, 2022

Posted on 12/08/2022 6:32:32 AM PST by Navy Patriot

Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price – and left behind an American jailed for nearly four years in Russia.

The deal, the second such exchange in eight months with Russia, procured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad. Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist whose monthslong imprisonment on drug charges brought unprecedented attention to the population of wrongful detainees.

"Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner. She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home," Biden tweeted Thursday morning.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: brittneygriner; cowboys; dallas; dallascowboys; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; letsgobrandon; merchantofdeath; micahparsons; nfl; paulwhelan; russia; texas; viktorbout; wnba
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To: allendale
The Biden cabal gave the Russians a lot more than an arms dealer to get their poster child back. If all the details were made public, decent Americans would gag.

You may be right, however the Prog Socialist Left, the Biden Regime, the Deep Swamp and the Traitor Democrat Media will always Lie and Gaslight America and Americans, so you'll have to rely on non Western Media to find out.

21 posted on 12/08/2022 6:50:37 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Now she can go back to defecating on the American Flag.

Can we work out a similar deal for the release of the January 9 prisoners still held incommunicado in the Washington Gulag?


22 posted on 12/08/2022 6:51:43 AM PST by Iron Munro ((Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke))
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To: old school
Nobody wants to see women’s basketball! Let alone, pay to watch it.

They should try playing naked.

23 posted on 12/08/2022 6:52:48 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

I wonder if the media will call Victor a ‘businessman’, in order to hide our defeat.


24 posted on 12/08/2022 6:58:08 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 24 degrees)
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To: Navy Patriot

Wonderful news!

Hopefully Putin tasks Bout to take out Zelensky and save us billions of dollars.


25 posted on 12/08/2022 6:58:45 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Navy Patriot
So they traded an arms dealer for a basketball player and left the US Marine (Paul Whelan) in Russia.

Is there no low that this administration won't sink to?

26 posted on 12/08/2022 6:59:24 AM PST by LVS1
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To: PGR88
I know my Tranny Whines a lot if she gets hot.

She probably needs oil.

27 posted on 12/08/2022 6:59:48 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Did Biden get the former Marine in Russia jail out too?


28 posted on 12/08/2022 7:00:12 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: EEGator
Former Marine is still there.

Yep, he trusted the wrong people.

29 posted on 12/08/2022 7:01:29 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Finally, a Biden administration “success” . . .


30 posted on 12/08/2022 7:01:48 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: Phlap
So, who won on this trade? Brittney is clearly the better player but to make a fair living from her talents, she had to go to Russia thus endangering her.
Meanwhile a male NBA player of little talent makes 10x what Ms. Griner earns.

She wasn't endangered by having to go to Russia.

She was endangered by her own arrogance and stupidity which led to being caught with illegal drugs.

But now that she has been released she should announce she now identifies as a male and demand she be allowed to play in the NBA.

She could start a new movement of manly women and girls demanding they be allowed on men's teams and be allowed to use the men's and boy's toilets and changing rooms!

How could they be denied because the reverse (men playing on women's teams) is already allowed in sports from school level to pro level.


31 posted on 12/08/2022 7:05:38 AM PST by Iron Munro ((Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke))
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To: adorno
Biden can’t win the military votes, so, a certain Marine will remain in a Russian prison until another president comes along.

Paul Whalen was imprisoned in 2018, two years before Biden took office.

32 posted on 12/08/2022 7:07:56 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: ryderann
Many high-level Russians are having fatal accidents. How long will Bout last?

Don't know.

Do know Biden drones Afghan Aid Workers and Children:

US military admits it killed 10 civilians, 7 children, and targeted wrong vehicle in Kabul airstrike

33 posted on 12/08/2022 7:08:30 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot
Navy Patriot :" The American most representing American Values and Policy Has Been Freed! "

COrrection :
An American representing Biden Values and Policy has been Freed !
Firearms and deadly force versus Cannabis residue,
while the remaining American prisoner remains behind.
Hail to Biden, the Great Negotiator ! (in hisown mind).

34 posted on 12/08/2022 7:10:48 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Navy Patriot

Trump would have had her back months ago, and made Russia pay for her airfare.


35 posted on 12/08/2022 7:11:56 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: Navy Patriot

...dramatic high-level prisoner exchange....?


36 posted on 12/08/2022 7:13:08 AM PST by Mashood
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To: Navy Patriot

VIDEO: From 60 minutes

This is who Joe Biden just freed for Brittney Griner, Victor Bout
https://rumble.com/v1zlyje-this-is-who-joe-biden-just-freed-for-brittney-griner-victor-bout.html


37 posted on 12/08/2022 7:15:09 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout gained infamy as the “Merchant of Death” & was found guilty for conspiring to sell AK-47’s that would’ve been used to kill DEA agents.


38 posted on 12/08/2022 7:18:05 AM PST by gswilder
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To: Iron Munro
Can we work out a similar deal for the release of the January 9 prisoners still held incommunicado in the Washington Gulag?

I don't know, ... maybe the Russian Diplomats can negotiate their release, they still do Diplomacy.

39 posted on 12/08/2022 7:25:40 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

can she now be sued by relatives of those killed by this guy???

like taking over a companies liabilities in a buyout, she was swapped for a criminal, does she not assume his debt to society?


40 posted on 12/08/2022 7:26:30 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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