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    Has been swapped for a basketball player.

    Brittney Griner released from Russian prison in swap for convicted arms dealer


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    Should we have traded for the ex marine Paul Whelan instead?
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    Whelan is a former marine who has been in prison longer and has served his country. I'm glad Griner is coming home but Paul Whelan should be coming home first. It is sad that the price was Viktor Bout that was caught try to sell 30,000 AK 47s and 800 surface to air missiles and trying to bring down an American helicopter.

    Will Putin just jail another American to eventually swap.
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    Basketball player who likes her cannabis for a guy trying to kill American soldiers. Sounds about right.

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    Trump made better prisoner swap deals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    Whelan is a former marine who has been in prison longer and has served his country. I'm glad Griner is coming home but Paul Whelan should be coming home first. It is sad that the price was Viktor Bout that was caught try to sell 30,000 AK 47s and 800 surface to air missiles and trying to bring down an American helicopter.

    Will Putin just jail another American to eventually swap.
    Would you be ok if Paul Whelan was swapped for an arms dealer?

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    The Russians must be pleased to be rid of her. She ate too much.



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    Would you swap Paul Whelan for an arms dealer?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Would you be ok if Paul Whelan was swapped for an arms dealer?
    I'd be more OK than an America hater pampered athlete.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    I'd be more OK than an America hater pampered athlete.
    YEP. For sure.

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    Ah, I love the smell of frying Reichwing brains in the morning. I predicted this meltdown of rage!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    I'd be more OK than an America hater pampered athlete.
    So its not a matter of a dangerous arms dealer being freed, but who the Russian is swapped for. You my dear are the fucking American hater.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    Trump made better prisoner swap deals.
    Trump left Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan to rot in Russian Gulags.

    Biden got Trevor Reed out, and it's possible he will get Whelan out too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExpressLane View Post
    Whelan is a former marine who has been in prison longer and has served his country. I'm glad Griner is coming home but Paul Whelan should be coming home first. It is sad that the price was Viktor Bout that was caught try to sell 30,000 AK 47s and 800 surface to air missiles and trying to bring down an American helicopter.

    Will Putin just jail another American to eventually swap.
    Whelan was accused of trading in Russian military secrets.

    Griner was carrying a small amount of pot that even under Russian law should have only warranted a fine.

    I think both of them were railroaded Into prison on trumped up charges, but I think the Russians look at Whelan's espionage charge with more gravity than a milliliter of hash oil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    So its not a matter of a dangerous arms dealer being freed, but who the Russian is swapped for. You my dear are the fucking American hater.
    As far as I can tell SHE was arrested for being an American drug user. He was arrested for being an American spy trying to buy Russian secrets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Whelan was accused of trading in Russian military secrets.

    Griner was carrying a small amount of pot that even under Russian law should have only warranted a fine.

    I think both of them were railroaded Into prison on trumped up charges, but I think the Russians look at Whelan's espionage charge with more gravity than a milliliter of hash oil.
    My hypothesis of how it all went down:

    Even under Russian law, Griner should have only been fined for the tiny amount of hash oil she had, but the FSB decided to take her hostage.

    The ex-marine Whelan had a Russia fetish, and I think he was just innocently interested in Russian military technology. Military geeks are like that. Somehow, FSB got wind of this and got somebody to give Whelan a flashdrive which supposedly had military specs on it. That was the take down.

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