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⚠️🇺🇸Prisoner swap leads to global terrorism: Russia is reportedly selling weapons to Yemeni Houthis with the involvement of Viktor Bout, a notorious arms dealer who was previously convicted in the U.S. then released in a prison swap for Brittney Griner. The first shipments, consisting mostly of AK-74 (PHOTO and more) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #WNBA #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
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TelegramLive: UkraineRussia is reportedly selling weapons to Yemeni Houthis with the involvement of Viktor Bout, a notorious arms dealer who was previously convicted in the U.S. The first shipments, consisting mostly of AK-74 Kalashnikov rifles, could take place as early as October. It is also possible that Houthis may receive anti-ship or anti-aircraft missiles from Russia in the future. If this happens, it would complicate efforts for U.S. forces to defend against Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. ▪️Viktor Bout had been selling Soviet-made weapons for decades. In 2011, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the U.S. However, he did not serve the full sentence, as he was released in a 2022 prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine
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Hanse Mina

Viktor #Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a #US jail almost two years ago in a trade with #Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney #Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to #Yemen’s #Iran-backed #Houthi militants.

wsj.com/world/russia/putins-me

#Ukraine#Russia
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ @MoiraEve @thepoliticalcat

Turns out this has nothing to do with timing or #Trump or his prospects vs #Harris' for #Election2024. It was just Donald's bluster all along that had thrown us off.

@bbc has a story about the detailed timeline that shows the prisoner swap deal between Russia and the West was 2 years in the making.

It started with the negotiations for Britney #Griner, and at one point involved #Navalmy too, but #Germany scuttled the latter

bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2p4e4

Image shows Putin and Biden
www.bbc.comTwo years, secret talks, high stakes: The long road to prisoners dealThe deal between Russia and the West followed a tumultuous, dramatic path until its completion on Thursday.
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ @anitavondannen @NewsDesk @Norobiik @glennf @Nonilex

Turns out this has nothing to do with #Trump or his prospects vs #Harris' for #Election2024. It was just Donald's bluster all along that had thrown us off.

@BBC has a story about the detailed timeline that shows the prisoner swap deal between Russia and the West was 2 years in the making.

It started with the negotiations for Britney #Griner, and at one point involved #Navalmy too, but #Germany scuttled the latter

bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2p4e4

Image shows Putin and Biden
www.bbc.comTwo years, secret talks, high stakes: The long road to prisoners dealThe deal between Russia and the West followed a tumultuous, dramatic path until its completion on Thursday.
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kurtsh

Taurasi... Griner...anyone other WNBA players wanna flag themselves as weak sauce haters?

Clark is doing nothing but making a very mediocre league more enticing & watchable & that means more viewers, ergo more money.

I originally thought this ridiculousness was orchestrated to generate controversy & views but it's been made clear: These women just wanna tear clark down.

"Brittney Griner Sent Caitlin Clark A Warning Before Her WNBA Debut"
thespun.com/wnba/brittney-grin

#wnba#clark#griner
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Chuck Darwin

How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

And now Karelina.
Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

The Guardian · Treason charges after $50 for Ukraine: desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in RussiaBy Guardian staff reporter
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SSFC KDT (MOVED)

You know, with all the people #hating on #BrittneyGriner, you know what she should do? Do "beat Brittney #Griner" contests. I don't know what her best stat is -- FTs? #Dunks? 3Ps? I dunno. But invite people to pay cash to try and beat her in a fair #challenge. Let them put their money where their mouths are. Charge like, a thou or something just to apply.

Fuck, you could #televise it. That would be something.

It would almost be too easy.

It's almost too #evil an idea.

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Huff Post (BOT)

Brittney Griner Urges Supporters To Write Letters To Paul Whelan In Russian Prison - Following her own release from captivity, the WNBA star asked her Instagram followers to send notes to Whelan, who remains incarcerated. #Griner #huffpost

huffpost.com/entry/brittney-gr

HuffPostBrittney Griner Urges Supporters To Write Letters To Paul Whelan In Russian PrisonBy Lydia O'Connor
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Democracy Now

Headlines for December 13, 2022 - G7 Leaders Pledge More Aid to Ukraine as Zelensky Appeals for Weapons and Fuel, Viktor Bout Joins Russian Ultranationalist Party; Brittney Griner Resumes Playing Basketball, Disgraced Cryptocurrency Executive Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas, Iranian Protester Publicly Hanged from Crane After Secretive Trial, Attack on Kabul Hotel Kills 3; Taliban Resumes Public... #Ukraine #Griner #Nevada #democracynow

democracynow.org/2022/12/13/he

Democracy Now!Headlines for December 13, 2022G7 Leaders Pledge More Aid to Ukraine as Zelensky Appeals for Weapons and Fuel; Viktor Bout Joins Russian Ultranationalist Party; Brittney Griner Resumes Playing Basketball; Disgraced Cryptocurrency Executive Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas; Iranian Protester Publicly Hanged from Crane After Secretive Trial; Attack on Kabul Hotel Kills 3; Taliban Resumes Public Executions and Floggings; Israeli Troops Fatally Shoot 16-Year-Old Palestinian Girl on Roof of Her Own Home; EU Parliament Officials Accused of Accepting Bribes from Qatar; Protests Erupt in Tunisia Ahead of Parliamentary Elections; Protests Spread in Peru as Anger Mounts over Impeachment and Arrest of Pedro Castillo; 300+ People on Oath Keepers Membership Rolls Took Jobs with Homeland Security Dept.; Nevada Prisoners’ Hunger Strike Demands End to Abuses and Solitary Confinement; Three Democratic U.S. Congressmembers Meet with Cuban President in Havana ; Richmond, Virginia, Removes Last Public Confederate Monument; “Gate of the Exonerated”: NYC to Honor Central Park Five, Wrongfully Convicted of 1989 Crime
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