1/2 way there!

Dutch Uncle said:
True to an extent, but trading the world's most dangerous arms trafficker, "The Merchant of Death", for a basketball player seems lopsided to me.

On the surface, it appears as fucked up as Obama's swapping five major GITMO terrorists for Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/americas/viktor-bout-profile-prisoner-swap-intl/index.html
Viktor Bout: Russian arms dealer known as the ‘Merchant of Death’ swapped for Brittney Griner


https://ballotpedia.org/Bowe_Bergdahl_exchange
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You are as right as usual, let just keep Americans imprisoned abroad, eh?
 
Jarod said:
The Russian we released was to be released in in 3-6 years anyway. We would have had no power to keep him longer.
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So what? How many lives could be saved by keeping him the extra 6 years? Do you really think he'd have been released earlier than his full sentence?

Again, like the Bergdahl swap, I think the US was hornswoggled by the enemy once again. This only encourages the global opinion that the US is weak.
 
floridafan said:
You are as right as usual, let just keep Americans imprisoned abroad, eh?
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You're free to believe no deaths will occur by releasing the arms dealer. Just close your eyes and say "This is good for Brittney" before taking your victory lap.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
So what? How many lives could be saved by keeping him the extra 6 years? Do you really think he'd have been released earlier than his full sentence?

Again, like the Bergdahl swap, I think the US was hornswoggled by the enemy once again. This only encourages the global opinion that the US is weak.
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Likely no lives would have been saved, but for sure BG’s has been saved.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
So what? How many lives could be saved by keeping him the extra 6 years? Do you really think he'd have been released earlier than his full sentence?

Again, like the Bergdahl swap, I think the US was hornswoggled by the enemy once again. This only encourages the global opinion that the US is weak.
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Very true.
 
Nomad said:
Yes he/she would, but only because the one they released is a black lesbian.
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I am sure that’s the case for a lot of Trumper’s, but had Trump gotten her released they would be so excited. Remember, when Trump got the brain dead, Otto Warmbier released, they were incredibly excited. Don’t get me wrong, his release was a good thing.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
He's only 55. How are you calculating the odds he won't get back in the arms business until age 65? How many lives are being gambled with on this?

Again, "the Merchant of Death" for a basketball player who was snatched precisely in hopes of this eventuality. Who is playing whom here?
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I've heard from top level sources that while he was incarcerated, on several occasions, they knocked him out with powerful sedatives then, while he was unconscious, they implanted tiny, microscopic tracking chips deep into several locations on his body.

Some of them even have tiny microphones that can pick up and transmit conversations.

They'll know where he is, what he's doing and what he's saying to who, every minute of every day for the rest of his life.

They'll know when he's on the toilet.
 
Nomad said:
I've heard from top level sources that while he was incarcerated, on several occasions, they knocked him out with powerful sedatives then, while he was unconscious, they implanted tiny, microscopic tracking chips deep into several locations on his body.

Some of them even have tiny microphones that can pick up and transmit conversations.

They'll know where he is, what he's doing and what he's saying to who, every minute of every day for the rest of his life.

They'll know when he's on the toilet.
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Not in Mother Russia. The United States freely gave him up in exchange for a wrongfully imprisoned basketball player arrested by Putin for exactly this sort of trade.

My advice is for Americans to stay out of rogue nations regardless how much money they are offered to go.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
You're gambling that "the Merchant of Death" will lead a peaceful, productive life.
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I seriously think it will be productive. I think its very unlikely he returns to what he was doing.


In fact, I suspect he gave up so many of his coconspirators he couldn't get back in the game if he tried.
 
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