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   From: 13percent@usa.com   
      
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   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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