Earl (12-09-2022)
Has been swapped for a basketball player.
Brittney Griner released from Russian prison in swap for convicted arms dealer
Breaking news.
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Should we have traded for the ex marine Paul Whelan instead?
Last edited by ExpressLane; 12-08-2022 at 08:14 AM.
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Earl (12-09-2022)
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.
Last edited by ExpressLane; 12-08-2022 at 08:16 AM.
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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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Callinectes (12-10-2022), McRocket (12-08-2022)
Trump made better prisoner swap deals.
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Callinectes (12-10-2022)
Geeko Sportivo (12-08-2022), LurchAddams (12-09-2022)
The Russians must be pleased to be rid of her. She ate too much.
Haw, haw.....................................haw.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
Would you swap Paul Whelan for an arms dealer?
Callinectes (12-10-2022), Earl (12-11-2022), Life is Golden (12-08-2022)
Callinectes (12-10-2022), Earl (12-11-2022)
Ah, I love the smell of frying Reichwing brains in the morning. I predicted this meltdown of rage!
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...56#post5401656
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Althea (12-08-2022), Cypress (12-08-2022), LurchAddams (12-09-2022)
LurchAddams (12-09-2022), ThatOwlWoman (12-08-2022)
LurchAddams (12-09-2022), ThatOwlWoman (12-08-2022)
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.
christiefan915 (12-08-2022), LurchAddams (12-09-2022), Port Tack (12-13-2022)
Earl (12-11-2022), Life is Golden (12-08-2022)
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.
LurchAddams (12-09-2022)
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