Ex-Trump adviser: Swapping Bout for basketball player Greiner is America's capitulation

The exchange of Russian Viktor Bout for American basketball player Brittney Griner, who was previously sentenced to 9 years in prison in the Russian Federation for drug trafficking, carried out by the US and Russian authorities is not beneficial to Washington. This was announced by the former adviser to former US President Donald Trump on national security issues, John Bolton.

Bolton called the exchange of Booth for Greiner "an American capitulation". He stressed that this was not a deal, but a defeat for the American side, obviously hinting at the obvious unequalness of the exchanged figures.

Earlier, Donald Trump himself called the exchange of Bout for Griner stupid and unpatriotic, a disgrace to the United States. After all, the American authorities wanted to exchange Bout not only for Greiner, but also for Paul Whelan, who is serving a sentence for espionage. However, Russia refused to exchange two Americans for Bout at once.

As a result, Washington agreed to an exchange for Bout Griner. Incumbent US President Joe Biden called the day of the exchange "the day we (they) have been longing for." He noted that it took long and painstaking negotiations before Russia agreed to hand over Greiner. But he stressed that the United States never stopped pressing for the release of the basketball player.

Meanwhile, the American Paul Whelan, who is in a Russian colony, sincerely wonders why he was not exchanged for Bout. Whelan was not even included in the list of candidates for the exchange. He never understood that a black female basketball player with an unconventional orientation today is of more interest to the American leadership from a propaganda point of view.

Recall that the exchange of Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner took place yesterday, December 8, in the UAE. From there, Greiner left for the United States, and Booth returned to the Russian Federation, where he was met by his mother and wife.

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[Boniface]

US Congressman Jamie Raskin called for the arrest of basketball player Christina Griner for helping the Russian army.

While in a Russian prison, Griner sewed uniforms for the Russian military, which, as you know, occupied Ukraine, Raskin said. - Yes, it is so common among Russians that prisoners sew uniforms for the military. But this is not normal for a US citizen. This is help to Putin's criminal regime.

The congressman added that his lawyers are already preparing a lawsuit.

Democracy - as it is!

[Myths]

If she is imprisoned there on a trumped-up charge, then so be it, she did not stay there for drugs either. And I consider exchanging drug transport for the falsely accused Bout in the news as capitulation ... all for the sake of political squabbles.

[Reptiloid]

.... Paul Whelan .... did not understand .....

not surprising! Where to understand near? He doesn't know. What are Western countries most proud of? Whose rights and freedoms are they fighting for? Of course LGBT and their various marriages are same-sex, or people are multi-sex ..... That's what.

[ABC-schutze]

I agree. Well, if not "surrender", then an extremely large concession from Russia ...

The guilt of Russian citizen Viktor Bout in some kind of "arms trade" has never been proven by anyone. All "evidence" is based on the "testimonies" of provocateurs sent to him from the FBI. And they boil down to a discussion of hypothetical "intentions" not confirmed by any real actions on the part of Viktor Bout.

Victor but was illegally exported (in fact, stolen) to the United States from the territory of a third state. Where, as a result of a fabricated "trial", he was unlawfully deprived of his liberty and spent 13 years in an American prison ...

Greiner, was REALLY convicted of drug trafficking by Russian law enforcement agencies. Her guilt is really proven in court and she herself does not deny it ...

Beyond that, a realistically equivalent arrangement would look like this:

- The United States immediately releases Viktor Bout, who REALLY and WRONGLY spent 13 years in prison;

- Russia, "reduces" Greiner's sentence from imprisonment for 9 years to imprisonment for 5 years. And after REAL serving her at least three years of imprisonment, deports her to the USA;

So, the term of the illegal imprisonment of Viktor Bout by the States would be at least "partially" compensated by a real prison sentence of an American woman who was actually convicted of transporting drugs ...

And so, she just "came out for free." Although you can be happy for Bout. The guy didn’t break down and it’s clearly time for him to go home ...

[alexmach]

In my opinion, they changed one figure that meant absolutely nothing to another. Booth's guilt is somehow purely hypothetical, Granger's guilt is in a petty private crime, nothing more. And they fanned out of this almost a spy scandal.

[alexoff]

Savchenko 2.0, we need to plant early, otherwise the congress will suddenly decide to fire from a mortar?!

[Tatar 174]

Class!!! Finally, poor fellow Booth has returned home!

[APASUS]

Quote: Tatar 174

Finally, poor fellow Booth has returned home!

What's cool here. A person has such a "difficult profession" and he can't sit at home, he has to rummage around the world, substitute himself and the state.
And if this basketball player didn’t exist, would you have to change for a spy?

[Yves762]

Quote: APASUS

A person has such a "difficult profession" and he cannot sit at home, he has to rummage around the world, substitute himself and the state.

In a way, like in their homelands, they should sit out, if I'm not confusing anything, no?

[napalm]

Their about

Quote: Yves762

Quote: APASUS

A person has such a "difficult profession" and he cannot sit at home, he has to rummage around the world, substitute himself and the state.

In a way, like in their homelands, they should sit out, if I'm not confusing anything, no?

They were both pardoned.

[polar fox]

Quote: APASUS

What's cool here. A person has such a "difficult profession" and he can't sit at home, he has to rummage around the world, substitute himself and the state.

Do you believe he did it himself? without a roof and a king in your head? kinda naive...

[APASUS]

Quote: polar fox

Do you believe he did it himself? without a roof and a king in your head? kinda naive...

Naturally, not himself and should have understood the degree of risk

[alexoff]

And what did he do there? He was only offered to sell weapons to front agents, but there were no more cases. Because if the Americans started digging, half the US administration of the XNUMXs should have been sent to the neighboring cells with Bout.

[Denis812]

Do you really not understand who Bout is and what he did for the country?

[alexmach]

What's cool here

What's cool? Well, firstly, a man returns home from an American prison, and one small episode with an unjust kidnapping seems to be somehow settled.
Secondly, the high contracting parties have shown the ability to still agree on at least some insignificant reasons. This is also positive in my opinion.

[APASUS]

Quote: alexmach

What's cool here

What's cool? Well, firstly, a man returns home from an American prison, and one small episode with an unjust kidnapping seems to be somehow settled.
Secondly, the high contracting parties have shown the ability to still agree on at least some insignificant reasons. This is also positive in my opinion.

And given that he was shaken out of him like a pear of information, which has a neck and the state has suffered some damage (because he can’t sit at home), there is little positive, only one return.

[alexmach]

Was there a boy(s)? What kind of info was shaken out of it? Did the private adventurer have any infa?

PS: I read what open sources write about him. 50 aircraft and may have been an unspoken intermediary for Rosoboronexport. He got into all sorts of reports long before the arrest, even Bush froze his accounts, even before it became a trend. Maybe he knew something.

But you are wrong, he went to a meeting in Thailand and not to go on a spree .. to the one on which he was taken.

[APASUS]

Quote: alexmach

Was there a boy(s)? What kind of info was shaken out of it? Did the private adventurer have any infa?

Who sold, where he took them, how they arranged the routes, meeting the mourners, how he transferred money and received it.

Quote: alexmach

50 aircraft and may have been an unspoken intermediary for Rosoboronexport.

and given such a sensitive area as the sale of weapons, you need to stay at home!

Quote: alexmach

But you are wrong, he went to a meeting in Thailand and not to go on a spree .. to the one on which he was taken.

He went to Tai to be treated for obesity, this was the first version and no one refuted it. Now for some reason he went to negotiate, in a month it will be that he passed by at all and was sucked in by the wind

[silverwolf88]

won ... lost - Cold War rhetoric ... Booth and Greiner definitely won ... and most importantly, our compatriot is now at home ... after so many years of imprisonment and abuse

[Labrador]

How cool they crack farts! just a song

[Cat Alexandrovich]

I remember this song.
- Exchanged a bully for Luis Corvalan...
Now what?
- They exchanged a drug addict for...
M.b. who will come up with?

[novel66]

They exchanged a drug addict for a..

Russian wife

[Amateur]

They traded a businessman for a lesbian athlete.
(This Greiner in the USA turns out to have a wife!)

[ycuce234-san]

The photo of the "exchange" separately cheered up - this photo looks like if they change the old and experienced Zhirinovsky for Ace Ventura, who has not yet been beaten by life.

[Tagan]

Quote: Boniface

US Congressman Jamie Raskin called for the arrest of basketball player Christina Griner for helping the Russian army.

While in a Russian prison, Griner sewed uniforms for the Russian military, which, as you know, occupied Ukraine, Raskin said. - Yes, it is so common among Russians that prisoners sew uniforms for the military. But this is not normal for a US citizen. This is help to Putin's criminal regime.

The congressman added that his lawyers are already preparing a lawsuit.

Democracy - as it is!

We are waiting for Greiner to land at home for participation in the NWO?))

[Cheshire]

Quote: Tagan

We are waiting for Greiner to land at home for participation in the NWO?))

We wait? Yes, they remembered her only in connection with the exchange ... In any case, such people are not sorry.

[tralflot1832]

The surrender of the United States is still far away, Bolton is exaggerating. We consider this as a cabal between Republicans and Democrats. No more.

[Vladimir80]

please do not interfere with shouting "hooray, hooray!", in the absence of real victories in Russia - you can think of them!

[Sergej1972]

This article talks about what both Bolton and Trump said. Did they say it? They spoke. What are the complaints then? Other media write about this and quote the words of these American politicians.

[Tagan]

Paul Whelan, who is in a Russian colony, sincerely wonders why it was not him who was exchanged for Bout.
Well, why is he wondering? It was necessary to immediately join the LGBT.

[tralflot1832]

And how will he prove that he joined them?

[Galleon]

He's in the zone. No special evidence is needed, he, as an American, is quickly there and they can help him.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: tralflot1832

And how will he prove that he joined them?

You don’t need to prove it, if they don’t let you out of prison, then the inmates liked him. A prison without "maneks" is no longer a prison.

[Amper]

A beautiful victory for diplomacy: the exchange of a drug addict for a trafficker. Seryoga gingerbread. News No. 1 filled all the screens, flew around the whole country, universal rejoicing is a must!

[Amateur]

John Bolton.

What else can you expect from this Russophobe. Now he will not be able to pee for three days from anger.

[Denis812]

Read the comments.
Along the way, guys, you just don’t understand who Bout is and what he did for Russia and what else he can do for Russia.
Half of our influence in all Africa and Asia is our weapon.
There are two ways to get it there. The first is the state. The second is just what Booth did.
And what will he do again. He has channels, he has connections. He will be given the same stingers and other junk captured in Ukraine. And he will melt it. And from this weapon they will kill, among other things, NATO soldiers and will shoot down Western Boeings with civilians, and maybe there will even be people who will work for the White House in the United States.

But this is not just a huckster with tattered Kalash. Booth is a system. Booth is the origin of the Wagner PMC, if you will. But that's what Russia does when it can't do it officially.

[Vladimir80]

he will AGAIN do. He has channels, he has connections. He will be given the same stingers and other junk captured in Ukraine. And he will melt it

this is 5 points, it’s not a sin to voice this on ren-tv !!!

[Denis812]

Very funny. Why do you think he was exchanged?
Because he is just a citizen of the Russian Federation and languished in the dungeons?
Not at all.
It can be very useful for Russia.

[Petr_Koldunov]

American Paul Whelan, who is in a Russian colony, sincerely wonders why it was not him who was exchanged for Bout

You were born in the wrong color dude...

[Petr_Koldunov]

This scarecrow has already set the teeth on edge, I think, even in Washington. According to Bolton, there can be only one case for NOT capitulation of America in any situation: if America, as a reaction to any proposal from another country, bombs it immediately.

[I dare to_notice_]

Maybe it’s true that the Russians don’t abandon their own? ..
Good for Victor.

[hhurik]

Quote: Yves762

Quote: APASUS

A person has such a "difficult profession" and he cannot sit at home, he has to rummage around the world, substitute himself and the state.

In a way, like in their homelands, they should sit out, if I'm not confusing anything, no?

The Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement works only in terms of the execution of international investigative orders. Issuance, incl. to serve the sentence - solely on the basis of international courtesy. Conceptually, in short.

[Sergej1972]

Bui has been officially pardoned in the USA, the American has been pardoned here. Therefore, they will not sit.

[tihonmarine]

He never understood that a black female basketball player with an unconventional orientation is of more interest to the American leadership today.

It's time to understand that Black Lives Matter and even LGBT people in America are of more interest than "some kind of spy", and besides, a white one. It's time to start living a real life.

[Des]

But for more than 14 years, Bout was in a US prison. Fourteen. Those. over these 14 years they could not, there was no one suitable for exchange? Booth is a hero, he didn't give up. Welcome back.

[Tagan]

Quote: tralflot1832

And how will he prove that he joined them?

Well, I don’t know, for starters, at least I put makeup on my lips. The scout, then, must think.)))

[fa2998]

Quote: Tatar 174

Booth is back home!

"America's Surrender!" The fact that our troops leave vast territories that have been won in battle is nothing! That villages and villages, even air bases under fire, are also trifles .. The main thing is Medvedchuk and Bout are already with us. Hooray !!!

[Uprun]

Blinkin squealed that the exchange of 1 to 1 is not constructive ......, only on the terms of the United States - 1 to 2. Well ...... who bent whom and who? It turns out that hechemon is not so inflexible .... Danila Bagrov's monologue "Tell me, American, what is the strength ... I think that the strength is in truth." Golden words, they need to be quoted every day in the media in relation to the striped .....

[solar]

Booth served 14 years, he would have been released so soon.

[iouris]

And even then, this basketball player will be asked to return to her women's colony in a week.

[Zadok]

Quote: napalm

They were both pardoned.

To be pardoned, one must admit guilt. Booth pleaded not guilty

[Scientist]

The exact wording is not given here. Maybe the charge was simply dropped or like parole.

[Mint Gingerbread]

He never understood that a black female basketball player with an unconventional orientation today is of more interest to the American leadership from a propaganda point of view.

What kind of nonsense are you instilling in the reader. Not exchanged, because he may have information that the other side should not know.

[Nitten]

Booth is absolutely beautiful! He did not admit guilt, did not leak anyone. He held on and believed. So he waited. I am glad that the Motherland does not forget about her sons!

[Zadok]

Quote: U. Cheny

The exact wording is not given here.

so let the author express himself more precisely, and not reprint the news from the tapes.

[Egor53]

A very symbolic exchange. USA - black lesbian and drug addict. Russia is a patriot who has already expressed his readiness to join the Russian army in Ukraine.