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Viktor Bout just one of the world’s arms dealers, sold weaponry to “rogue states”rebel groups and murderous warlords in Africa, Asia and South America. (His notoriety was such that his life helped inspire a Hollywood film, 2005’s Lord of War, starring Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov, an arms dealer loosely based on Bout.)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/7/freed-russian-arms-dealer-viktor-bout-back-in-business-report

Note also a Politician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout

#militaryindustrialcomplex #armsdealers #ViktorBout #ukraine #Houthi

Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout back in business: Report

Viktor Bout, dubbed the ‘merchant of death’, was exchanged two years ago for US basketball star Brittney Griner.

Al Jazeera

#ViktorBout, supranumit „Negustorul morții”, a revenit în comerțul cu arme (📰#WallStreetJournal).

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Viktor Bout, supranumit "Negustorul morții", a revenit în comerțul cu arme (The Wall Street Journal)

Viktor Bout a revenit în comerțul cu arme, anunţă publicaţia The Wall Street Journal. El a luat parte la o întâlnire în cadrul căreia a fost stabilită o

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Just a reminder as arms are being smuggled into conflict zones all around the World that this guy, fictionalised in the movie Lord Of War, is out and about.
#ViktorBout

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11036569

Viktor Bout: Who is the Merchant of Death?

The Russian has been freed by the US, in a prisoner swap with basketball star Brittney Griner.

BBC News
Free Evan

As of today—World Press Freedom Day!—my friend Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, has been held in Russian prison for five weeks.

Jezebel
My latest for Cannabis Now Magazine... a look at the politics and ethics of trading personal-possession cannabis defendant and good-vibes liberation icon #BrittneyGriner for #DeathMerchant #ViktorBout. Yes, Bout is a baddie, but GOP exploitation of the issue (as they connive with Putin in bottlenecking Ukraine aid!) is ultra-cynical. Meanwhile, there are thousands of "wrongfully detained" #cannabis defendants here in the USA. Lest we forget. https://cannabisnow.com/even-free-brittney-griner-remains-a-political-pawn/
Even Free, Brittney Griner Remains a Political Pawn

It’s a fairly open secret that Brittney Griner was Putin’s geopolitical pawn when she was in Russian detention for nine months on a minor cannabis charge. But due to the GOP’s blame-first strategy, Griner remains a target even now.

Cannabis Now
#iTHiNKLabs 2022: Episode 244

A little late to the game here, but a piece on the #BrittneyGriner-#ViktorBout release, the politics of prisoner swaps, and why cutting short the sentences of miscreants like Bout and the “Narco Nephews” is an inevitable cost of a getting detained Americans back home. https://t.co/wP60mpUi93
The Brittney Griner swap was nothing out of the ordinary

The US often engages in prisoner swaps. With 153 Americans wrongly held abroad, more trades will occur after Brittney Griner

The Spectator World
In Liberia and Across Africa, Viktor Bout’s Bloody Legacy Is Still Felt

The Russian arms dealer swapped for Brittney Griner was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans. But in the 1990s and early 2000s, he supplied weapons to myriad African conflicts.

@joyannreid
Whenever tRump or his MAGAts try to suggest there's anything dangerous to Americans bcs int'l arms dealer #ViktorBout was swapped for #BrittneyGriner I hope every journalist will remind them how many Americans have died bcs of their support for the NRA, & their various domestic terrorist supporters, (who are responsible for 10s of thousands of deaths evry yr & the constant threat of gun violence) & none of them got weapons from Viktor Bout.