A generation of young Russian manhood has died or been wounded for life in the Ukraine battlefields. What was supposed to be a quick “special military operation” designed to swallow Ukraine like a ripe morsel in a few days has turned into a months-long, grinding war of attrition.
However, according to the Washington Free Beacon, the Russian state media has found one reason to be amused at the expense of the United States and President Joe Biden.
December 16, 2022
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan appeared on Russian television. She said she was “amused but not surprised” that Biden chose to swap WNBA player Brittney Griner and not former Marine Paul Whelan for the notorious arms dealer Victor Bout.
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“His first problem is that he is white. His second problem is he is a man. His third problem: He is a heterosexual. This is not something that can be forgiven today.”
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Much to the likely annoyance of most Americans, Simonyan pegged the identity politics that guide the Biden Administration neatly. She went on to say, “American voters were given a choice: a hero who suffered while serving his fatherland … or a black lesbian, hooked on drugs, who suffered for a vape with hashish."
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Griner had been arrested at the Moscow airport for having cannabis on her person, which she claimed she used for pain medication. Whelan, a former Marine, had been arrested on trumped-up espionage charges. Bout is an arms trafficker who sold weapons to terrorists who later used them to kill Americans. He was arrested in Columbia in 2011.
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Simonyan said that the prisoner swap was the “first good news” Russia has had in 2022. What was the second good news?
“The second good news is that [the United States] spits on its heroes to the extent that it considers it significantly more important to free a rightfully charged, well-known athlete. This says a lot about the state of this society, of these intelligence agencies, and everything related to geopolitical confrontation.”
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The New York Post reports that the Biden administration wanted to trade Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death,” for Griner and Whelan. The Russians insisted that a convicted assassin named Vadim Krasikov, now serving time in a German prison, be included in the deal.
The irony is that Biden may wind up swapping Krasikov for Whelan anyway.
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