• Re: Biden’s next big blunder: Springing 'merchant of death' Viktor Bout

    From 13%@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 9 21:36:19 2022
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    In article <t21fqh$3aqmb$13@news.freedyn.de>
    <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

    President Joe Biden is bucking yet again to add to his ever-
    growing list of blunders: He now reportedly wants to trade
    “merchant of death” arms dealer Viktor Bout for two Russian-held
    US hostages, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.

    Big mistake. Yes, get Griner and Whelan home — but not this way.

    For starters, neither of them is accused of anything even
    remotely as horrific as Bout, who’s serving 25 years for arms
    trafficking and conspiring to kill Americans. Douglas Farah,
    who’s written about Bout, says he supplied weapons to “the most
    vicious warlords in the world,” enabled “murderous groups to
    kidnap and train thousands of child soldiers” and to use rape
    and torture. He also helped the Taliban take power in
    Afghanistan.

    “There are no words to describe the human toll of Bout’s
    activities on thousands of people,” writes Farah.

    By contrast, Russia accuses Griner of . . . possessing cannabis
    in a vape cartridge, for which she faces a 10-year sentence. And
    though it says Whelan, a former Marine, was spying, US officials
    fiercely deny it.

    The moral horror of such a trade is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Once Russia sees it can spring any bad Russian actor caught in
    the United States simply by grabbing an American or two as
    bargaining chips, it’ll start grabbing more innocent American
    hostages. Other nations (and terror groups) will join the rush.

    Which is no doubt why the Justice Department reportedly opposed
    this deal. Alas, Biden, desperate for anything that could even
    be seen as a win, reportedly backs it, and he gets the last word.

    Then again, Biden’s just continuing a practice of trading evil-
    doers for innocent hostages from his days in the Obama-Biden
    administration, which gave up five Taliban leaders for Army
    deserter Bowe Bergdahl. Four of them rejoined the Taliban in
    Afghanistan after Biden’s bugout last year.

    Meanwhile, Russia says it hasn’t yet agreed to the deal; it
    likely wants our hapless president to offer more. Brace for the
    worst.

    Comments:

    Wes Simpson
    28 July, 2022

    Biden’s life-long foreign policy decisions speak for
    themselves….is anyone actually surprised by him batting 1000%
    wrong?!

    https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/bidens-next-big-blunder-springing- merchant-of-death-viktor-bout/

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