The “Trump Administration” — but definitely not “Trump” /s
Bolton screwed the USA over then, now it bites us again.
Putin beat old Joey “White House” Crappy Pants again. Joey is an idiot.
We’re sending arms to Ukraine and an arms dealer to Russia.
When you do a prisoner swap, you look for the swap to have benefits for both sides.
Bout was a huge fish, very connected, had national strategic importance. He also has lots of blood on his hands, including American blood.
Whelan was a Marine, but he was also a bad Marine with the Big Chicken Dinner on his record, and a criminal who behaved like some wannabe James Bond would behave if they were trying to be James Bond. His value is ... certainly not at the James Bond level.
Griner... if it were a straight white NBA player caught with drugs in a country that he had worked in for multiple years during the league offseason and should have been familiar with the laws of, it would be tough to even get a story on the nightly news about his arrest. Her value exists only on Twitter, if she goes back to playing basketball, she’ll get a hero’s welcome those first few games, but be playing to 3/4 empty arenas within a month.
Wrong. This was about immunity for MBS and dropping the murder charges against him . And Russia plus UAE want arms trade on Ukraine war arms from us.
If we’re gonna trade we should make a deal that get all three Americans back rather than pontificating on getting parity value. Staggering it is the tactically stupidest option as it stills breaks our pledge to not negotiate, creates envy as it prioritizes some Americans over others, and it allows the opponent to double dip on concessions. Either refuse to deal or get them all in one package.
Putin played Biden like a violin. Putin is in political trouble and needs strong allies around him. He took advantage of Biden’s weakness and, let’s be honest, stupidity to extract just such a person and return him to Russia.
Putin knew that Biden desperately wanted Griner, a black, female (I guess), homosexual, who openly demonstrated her (its?) hatred for the United States by showing disrespect for its flag and anthem, and claimed privilege by flouting Russian law, released to appease Dems as they move rapidly to the left.
Thanks, Brandon.
The solution is simple; very quietly put a million dollar+ contract out on Bout. Some talented professional will rise to the opportunity.
“We got back our spy, it seems, and gave away a normal girl,” he added.
Griner a "normal girl"?
I'd bet the DNA says otherwise.
Maybe a dope smoking homosexual with a groupie following is the moral equivalent of Victor.
broken clock
Was Griner over charged? I’ve never seen anyone analyze or compare the transgression and charge with prior standards.
What’s Bolton complaining about?
He voted for Biden.
“John Bolton: We refused to swap Viktor Bout for Paul Whelan, and “for very good reasons”.”
Something tells me that Victor Bout has a lot of names of high-ranking people that Bolton would prefer to not be disclosed.
...why else would he be so wound up about a relatively small-time gun runner (at least compared to the big-time runners, like the US government)?
BOLTON looking for face time & traction to run for Pres in 2024.