Basketball player Brittney Griner is being released by Putin..
It's a prisoner swap..
She will be exchanged for the "merchant of death", Viktor Bout..
...Viktor Bout is known as a "death merchant" and for good reason. He is a classic arms dealer who will work for whichever side has the cash to pay him. He mostly did lots of stuff for Vladimir Putin in Africa, which is cool BUT, he also sold arms to some wicked folks doing stuff for the United States/CIA in Latin America. Then the CIA found out that Viktor Bout was selling arms to some anti-US rebel groups in Latin America, and that's when the "merchant of death" became America's No.1 enemy, and thus his down fall.
I've always been interested in Viktor Bout because he supplied weapons to some revolutionary warriors in Africa (angola, mozambique, south africa/ANC etc)---he was on the good side in Africa. Ha!
btw, I strongly believe that Brittney Griner being a lesbian helped her cause. I wonder if she was a straight Black basketball player there would be sooo much attention & hype to her case?
Just wondering, that's all!
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