Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Free Evan https://jezebel.com/evan-gershkovich-wall-street-journal-friend-1850397198 #Jezebel #viktorboute28094evan #wallstreetjournal #evangershkovich #brittneygriner #vladimirputin #broadcasting #bidenfamily #austintice #lynnetracy #julieioffe #viktorbout #television #joebiden #politics #biden #rt

My latest for Cannabis Now Magazine... a look at the politics and ethics of trading personal-possession cannabis defendant and good-vibes liberation icon #BrittneyGriner for #DeathMerchant #ViktorBout. Yes, Bout is a baddie, but GOP exploitation of the issue (as they connive with Putin in bottlenecking Ukraine aid!) is ultra-cynical. Meanwhile, there are thousands of "wrongfully detained" #cannabis defendants here in the USA. Lest we forget. https://cannabisnow.com/even-free-brittney-griner-remains-a-political-pawn/

#iTHiNKLabs Episode 244🔴https://bit.ly/3Po8rne

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#Europe #Parents @WhiteHouse #NATO @EmmanuelMacron #Haiti @POTUS #Russia #ChatGPT #Tech #France #Twitter #Iran #Security #Leadership #Sinema #Business #Indonesia #Travel #AI #ViktorBout #Law #Ukraine #Regulation #ElonMusk

#iTHiNKLabs Episode 244🔴https://bit.ly/3Po8rne

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#Europe #Parents @WhiteHouse #NATO @EmmanuelMacron #Haiti @POTUS #Russia #ChatGPT #Tech #France #Twitter #Iran #Security #Leadership #Sinema #Business #Indonesia #Travel #AI #ViktorBout #Law #Ukraine #Regulation #ElonMusk

Do you feel the release of Viktor Bout is a threat to global security?
#viktorbout #nationalsecurity #internationalsecurity

A little late to the game here, but a piece on the #BrittneyGriner-#ViktorBout release, the politics of prisoner swaps, and why cutting short the sentences of miscreants like Bout and the “Narco Nephews” is an inevitable cost of a getting detained Americans back home. https://t.co/wP60mpUi93

#Lawmakers Call for a #NationalHostageDay https://politicaliq.com/2022/12/13/lawmakers-call-for-a-national-hostage-day/ #Congress #BrittneyGrinerIsFree #PaulWhelan #WrongfullyDetained #Russia #ViktorBout #RobertLevinson #JamesWFoley #politicaliq #news #politics

Today, convicted arms dealer #ViktorBout ,a.k.a the “Merchant of Death”, joined the LDPR.
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The LDPR is a hardline, ultranationalist #russian political party. It portrays the role of opposition party, but backs most of what the #kremlin does. LDPR wants Russia to absorb (conquer) all of the territory lost after the fall of the #soviet union.
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Last week, Bout was released from a U.S. prison, in exchange for WNBA star Brittney Griner.

A co tam słychać u "handlarza śmiercią"? #ViktorBout po tym jak został zwolniony z więzienia przystąpił do prokremlowskich ultranacjonalistów.

#Russia's arms dealer Viktor Bout has joined the pro-Kremlin ultranationalist LDPR party. @BBCWorld@twitter.com
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63947938

#ViktorBout joined the Liberal Democratic Party and thanked the chairman of the party, #LeonidSlutsky, and its founder, #VladimirZhirinovsky, for their help "in getting me out of captivity in the #UnitedStates."

Does Bout know about #Zhirinovsky? Or has he not been told yet?

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Arms dealer (accidentally released) #ViktorBout joined the #LiberalDemocraticParty.

Released weapons baron #ViktorBout about the "special operation".

He also claims that a portrait of #Putin hung in his prison cell.

Star of the Hero and a seat in the State Duma for this patriot!

🤣🤡💩 #Russians know how to lie my goodness 🤮😅

#Russian arms dealer #ViktorBout, who was released from an #American prison as a result of a prisoner exchange, complained about the food in an #American prison and said that he “heartily” supported the “special operation” and would not mind going to fight as a volunteer in #Ukraine.

What you waiting for criminal? Get on that toy helmet and do your thing!

Tonite @NewsHour@twitter.com - full coverage of #BrittneyGriner swap for #ViktorBout. @nickschifrin@twitter.com reports, hears from #PaulWhelan brother David, then speaks w/ DEA agent who captured Bout. Then, @JudyWoodruff@twitter.com speaks w/ WH NSC spox John Kirby; followed by @IAmAmnaNawaz@twitter.com w/ @dawnstaley@twitter.com

#Putin #Russia are masters in propaganda/manipulation. They know well that swapping #WhitneyGriner for #ViktorBout would cause division. The activities of this arms dealer has long been overtaken but he had importance to #Russian politics/corruption in high places. A US Marine/ #PaulWhelan swap wouldn't have caused such big problems.
Why always fall for the divide & conquer tactic? - Probably bc it fits anti-democratic agendas.
Deals with the devil are rarely good ones

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/09/1141969755/viktor-bout-is-back-in-moscow-is-he-still-a-national-security-threat-to-the-u-s

#Putin #Russia are masters in propaganda/manipulation. They know well that swapping #WhitneyGriner for #ViktorBout would cause division. The activities of this arms dealer has long been overtaken but he had importance to #Russian politics/corruption in high places. A US Marine/ #PaulWhelan swap wouldn't have caused such big problems.
Why always fall for the divide & conquer tactic? - Probably bc it fits anti-democratic agendas.
Deals with the devil are rarely good ones

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/09/1141969755/viktor-bout-is-back-in-moscow-is-he-still-a-national-security-threat-to-the-u-s

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Wikipedia anglophone ?
1. Viktor Bout #ViktorBout
2. 2022 FIFA World Cup #2022FifaWorldCup
3. Brittney Griner #BrittneyGriner

Mitt Romney told me that it symbolically says a lot about Russia that the USA wanted to get a young athlete home while they were eager to get an arms dealer. #BritneyGriner #ViktorBout

Listening to the conservative talking heads today. They really have shown their ignorance over the Griner prison swap. Viktor Bout was arrested in 2008, was extradited to the US, and was convicted here in 2011. He’s been behind bars for 14 years…Are these talking heads really dumb enough to think the world he operated in pressed pause? Those folks moved on. Found a replacement to sell their arms. Bout is leaving prison powerless, and we were able to bring one of own home. #Griner #viktorbout

Il aura purgé 10 ans de prison aux Etats-Unis. L'ex-trafiquant d'armes russe Viktor Bout a profité de la volonté de Washington de négocier la libération de la star américaine de basket, Brittney Griner, détenue en Russie. Qui est donc ce #ViktorBout ? Portrait.