Topic: FJB regime repeats Griner for Bout disaster with latest prisoner exchange w/Puti

[Libertas]

By my count this is the third straight over-pay this corrupt government has gotten bent over by Putin in prisoner exchanges...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3107070/evan-gershkovich-paul-whelan-released-russia-major-prisoner-swap/

Previously they gave up drug trafficker Konstantin Yaroshenko, then scumbag arms dealer Viktor Bout...now it is reported he coughed up individuals who disappeared off the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons database that match names given out by the Russian outlet RIA:

Alexander Vinnik - money laundering

Maxim Marchenko - money laundering

Vadim Konoshchenok - supplying dual use tech/ammo to Russia

Vladislav Klyushin - conspiracy, wire fraud and securities fraud

Roman Seleznyov - cyber crimes and fraud

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/31/prisoner-swap-speculation-grows-as-five-russians-disappear-from-us-jail-database-en-news

And there is chatter about "others"...

Now, not downplaying the people we got back (except Griner, that loser for the worst scumbag of them all?, ridiculous!) but FJB is a fracking easy mark and anybody will get the better of this corrupt regime...

[Libertas]

Also, Vadim Krasikov, a hitman who whacked former Chechen rebel Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in a Berlin park who served time in Germany was also released and got a big hug from Putin when he landed in Moscow.  There was also a spy couple in Slovenia, a spy in Poland, a spy in Norway.

Looks like the Biden-Harris regime gave up the entire farm for their PR photo op...

Almost certain Trump would not have had to overpay so much to get 3 people out.  And Trump has also warned a precedent could be set for kidnappings to get more deals like this in the future.  In fact Trump has gotten people back without giving up criminals in his first term, he secured the releases of Michael White, Sam Goodwin, Pastor Andrew Brunson, Joshua and Tamara Holt, and Pastor Bryan Nerran.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/evan-gershkovich-prisoner-exchange-paul-wheelan-putin-russians-freed-rcna164678

[patentlymn]

I did not follow this swap.
I recall the CIA said they would not hesitate to use journalists and journalists went nuts. "Thanks for painting a target on our backs."
 

[patentlymn]

[ToddF]

So this actually happened at the photo op of welcoming these two guys back home.

https://x.com/atensnut/status/1819364382511350258

Holy shizzle Biden is gone.   

[Libertas]

I did not follow this swap.
I recall the CIA said they would not hesitate to use journalists and journalists went nuts. "Thanks for painting a target on our backs."

Carry their water...win stupid prizes...

 

[Libertas]

So this actually happened at the photo op of welcoming these two guys back home.

https://x.com/atensnut/status/1819364382511350258

Holy shizzle Biden is gone.   

OK to serve out his term though...