Griner Shouldn’t Have Been Negotiated For, But is Viktor Bout Really “Mr. Death”?

Andrew Anglin December 9, 2022

Every level of this news story is dumb and retarded.

Daily Caller:

The Biden administration said it made the “very painful decision” to bring Brittney Griner home Thursday, one that required former U.S. marine Paul Whelan to stay behind in Russian prison, Politico reported.

Russian authorities arrested Whelan for alleged espionage in December 2018. He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison in June 2020. Negotiations for Whelan’s release ramped up following Griner’s arrest and detention earlier in 2022, with Washington pushing for a two-for-one deal with Russia: Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner for the “Merchant of Death” arms dealer Viktor Bout, Politico reported.

Moscow previously said it would only consider releasing both Griner and Whelan if the U.S. included Vadim Krasikov, an ex-KGB colonel convicted of murdering a Georgian citizen in 2019, in the trade, according to Politico. After multinational negotiations, Russia informed U.S. officials the country would only trade Griner for Bout.

Let’s start with the conservative narrative that Whelan should have been released instead: I basically agree with that. In my experience, Russia doesn’t put people in prison for no reason, and I think he really was a spy who received a USB drive with classified Russian intelligence on it to bring back to US authorities. But if that’s the case, he was on an actual mission for the US government, which means he should definitely have priority over some woman who brought drugs into Russia.

By the way: no one denies she brought drugs into Russia, no one denies that is illegal, and typically, the US government does not negotiate for the release of people who committed obvious crimes in other countries, who admitted to the crimes, and who no one questions did the crimes.

Here is where the whole thing completely falls apart: Marc Fogel, another US citizen, a white heterosexual male, is currently in prison for bringing 17 grams of “medical marijuana” into Russia in 2021 – the US government does not classify him as “wrongfully detained.”

This proves, definitively, that the entire campaign to “free the Grinder” was a fraud. No one can really dispute this. The entire push for the US to release this black criminal was based on the fact that she was black and a lesbian, and that black lesbian press secretary said as much.

On this level, the conservatives are right. They definitely should have freed Whelan, and the media has admitted that Russia gave them a choice. They freed the black petty criminal because she’s an icon of social justice and hatred of America. (She does hate America, totally – attacking the national anthem and so on. That’s all true.)

Whatever you think of the US government agenda against Russia – and I am not a fan of it – a spy is an employee of the government, risking his life on the orders of the government, and thus the government has an obligation to him. The government doesn’t have any obligation to a drug user who gets caught drug smuggling in a foreign country.

What I am taking issue with here is the fact that conservatives are uncritically absorbing the narrative about Viktor Bout, who is not a criminal, is not Mr. Death, and should not have been in prison in the first place.

The number of conservative commentators uncritically accepting the claim that Bout was some kind of deranged psychopath committing very serious international crimes is shocking and repulsive. These people are either neoconservative extremists or they are simply uncritically accepting the official government narrative on this topic.

Bout was involved in the international arms trade. This is true. It is also true that selling guns in countries where guns are legal is not illegal. In fact, the US government itself sells a whole lot of guns.

The media keeps talking about the fact that the film “Lord of War” with Nick Cage was based on Viktor Bout. In fact, it was only loosely based on him. The character was not even Russian. If he’d been American in real life, as he was in the film, he’d have been subject to American law. A Russian operating internationally is not subject to American law.

The basic story here is that the US government set up a fake meeting with him in Bangkok, under the premise that they were agents of FARC in Colombia and wanted to secure a weapons deal. At this time, Bout had not been charged with any crimes. In the meeting they asked Bout if the weapons could be used to kill DEA agents operating illegally in Colombia. He confirmed that any deadly weapon can be used to kill any person. He did not say “I want you to use these weapons to kill Americans.”

The situation is no different than if you go into a gun store and ask the clerk if 9mm bullets can be used to kill cops, and he says “yes, these bullets can kill any human.”

The feds were working with the Thai police in this operation, but the Thai police ended up declaring that the US case was totally political and not criminal. They determined he’d not broken any Thai law or any international law. It took the US years to secure his extradition from Thailand, and we can only guess what was going on in the background there.

Russia declared that the whole thing was a scam and violated international law, because there was no law that Bout broke, and the US government doesn’t have the right to just go around the world arresting and imprisoning people they don’t like for things they did in other countries.

The US believes they are the World Police, that they can go around the world kidnapping people who are not in their jurisdiction and did not commit any crimes anyway. This is ridiculous and it is one of the main reasons the whole world hates America.

When the US is illegally kidnapping people and then using them for trade, this creates a serious problem where the US has an incentive to kidnap more people to use them for trade.

But hey – it is what it is.

What frustrated me about the situation was simply that so many conservative commentators will just absorb whatever the obvious narrative is about anything they see in the media. None of them know anything about Viktor Bout, yet they are all calling him “Mr. Death” and claiming he’s a criminal and even a “terrorist.”

People need to care less about politics and more about the truth. There is an incentive to lie and say that Bout was some vicious evil madman, because this apparently makes what Biden did seem worse. But if you lie for political purposes like that, you’re really no better than the Jews.

Acknowledging that Bout was not a criminal and was illegally kidnapped by the terrorist US government, which thinks it’s the boss of the world, doesn’t take away from the lunatic nature of Biden working to free a woman who committed a drug crime just because she is black, lesbian, and hates America. It doesn’t change the absurdity of picking her over a spy who was actually working on behalf of the government.

The truth will set us free. We have to put the truth first. Nothing good ever came from lies. Lies just make everything worse.

P.S.

What exactly is the deal with the WNBA?

I don’t get it.

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