Art of the deal it isn't
https://newsmax.com/newsfront/united-states-russia-griner/2022/12/08/id/1099639/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.
Biden's authorization to release a Russian felon once nicknamed "the Merchant of Death" underscored the escalating pressure that his administration faced to get Griner home,
Even so, the fact that the deal was a one-for-one swap was a surprise given that U.S. officials had for months expressed their their determination to bring home both Griner and Paul Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive jailed in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government has said are baseless.
In releasing Bout, the U.S. freed a a former Soviet Army lieutenant colonel whom the Justice Department once described as one of the world's most prolific arms dealers. Bout, whose exploits inspired a Hollywood movie, was serving a 25-year sentence on charges that he conspired to sell tens of millions of dollars in weapons that U.S officials said were to be used against Americans.
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Endless War brought to you by the dem party.
She’s worth more PR points the Marine not so much.
Trump would have pulled a 3:1 in the US favor but then he actually loves his country.
in her nice house while going on social media talking about how awful living in the US is.
Biden: no. We can’t do that. That is no way fair.
Months later, after nothing has changed.
Biden: hey. You want to trade our low level drug user for your international arms dealer the Merchant of death.
Russia: I guess we could do that.
Biden and his fawning media: Woohoo. Biden just won. Taste it Putin!
Gets killed by alleged black Twitter
Pathetic