The man known as the “Merchant of Death” is back in Russia after a prisoner swap, already taking a swipe at Moscow’s enemies.
Arms dealer Viktor Bout has given his first interview to state media, accusing the West of trying to destroy Russia.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem has this report from Moscow.
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LOL. What a deal!
Russia exchange crack head drugs back to usa 🇺🇸 😂 🤣 😅
US Arms budget $850 Billion. NATO Arms budget $350,450 Billion. Only US is allowed to be Merchant of Death. Who created and armed ISIS ? Hypocrisy.
Many Russians wants to get out Russia. No Freedom at all!!!
US: I have a legendary card called “Merchant of Death”. Ill trade it for your card, “Lesbian Drug Addict”.
Russia: Deal!
Putin got such a good deal
He read “The Art of the Deal” 🤷♂️
U.S. Congress Member’s Merchants of Death.
Putins main arms dealer. Imagine all the billions of equipment we are sending to Ukraine. It will fall in he’s hands and be sold in the black market. All for a athlete that hates America and has contraband with her. Ok.
Biden is the biggest fckup ever. He is destroying the US.
The only merchant of death is the west.
WELCOME HOME VIKTOR NOW SHOW JOE SOME GRATITUDE MAYBE YOU CAN COME TO WASHINGTON SOON. LET US KNOW
Bear can’t bully the wolves for long!
So some guy nicknamed the merchant of death for trafficking weapons returns to Russia and they use him for propaganda to say the west wants to destroy Russia and that makes international news ? Why is this credible ?
We need trump back. This old man is good for nothing.
Well Putin just single handedly destroyed America
Russia had the upper hand on this deal. US traded a Russian weapon dealer over a BLM LGBT thug over weed. Yet Russia still kept the other guy ( paul whelan). Which is still a wild card for Russia. Actually Russia did win on this deal. Good job for Russia 👍🏻
@The greatNormad of course it will Americans are to weak to do anything about it. The rest of the world doesn’t care about BLM
You know what is crazier? Russia offered Whelan for Bout. US declined the offer and took the LGBTABCD123+ pokémon.
@A N 😂😂😂
This trade I truly believe signals the gradual transformation of Russia from being just Russia to the Russian empire.
@Thompson Cringe. Brainwashed libtards are always trying to blame Russian and Putin on creating and Empire and Soviet Union (which is 2 opposite fckn things). Also, Russia is far from Monarchy unlike UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain etc etc. If someone is trying to create and Empire today, its for sure UK. But they will be slapped hard by US and Russia, just like back in those days.
BE A SHAME IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO VIKTOR NOW, LOL
Didn’t Nicolas Cage play him in the movie?
When the wall fell the West’s only interest was to integrate Russia into the world community. Russia chose totalitarianism.
Griner, the merchant of anti-Americanism.
It is like a free trade. All Russia needs to do is arrest any celeb and get their spies back in return. This trade cost Russia nothing, Brittney has no value to them until now.
This changed the US policy from we don’t negotiate with terrorists too we negotiate for terrorists
I’m American. We largely all hate Britney Griner. She’s a garbage human being
This was not a Fair trade. This man is true evil!!! 😡😖😖
@Raj A You have the common sense of a 2 year old
@My Excelsior not true, to be fair let’s say 10 year old please
That means every arms dealer is evil??? There are arms dealers in every single country…. Not that I am a fan of arms dealing – but I cannot follow your logic…
@I love this world negative on that. See this man was responsible for arming drug lords and terrorist organizations. Whereas regular amrs dealers you mentioned would not do so.
@Raj A thanks for replying 🙂 You may be right – if I am honest I am not able to verify. But I am astonished: I thought Russia has always been supportive to Mexico, against the Germans and the US.
Or do you only hate this particular man only?
911 proves how incompetent the U S people are when it comes to standing up to their government. Now the government does whatever the FK they want.
Americans and their moronic egos.
We need Trump back Trump can fix this
This is why Ukraine does not want to negotiate with Russia.
United States exchanged a Russian male terrorist for a female lesbian pothead basketball player.
History will remember Biden how the Soviet Union remembers Gorbachev.
They exchange him for a weed snitching player to look good. Wait for him to do the buying of weapon for Russia.
Another win for white heterosexual men…
He had nothing but nice things to say about America in his RT interview.
Yes he did. Guy sounds intelligent too.. And he just basically said the United States is weak and not as strong as it use to be.
SHEL311: 🇺🇸 is not weak, just more unpredictable now. If we have someone like Trump and his Republicans again, we will not have ethics or care about anybody else.
How do I watch the interview? With a VPN?
@uverpro You can find the clip here on YT. I found it on a few black conservative pages.
@SHEL311 Exactly. I actually can respect his thoughtful response. He was better spoken than our politicians.
Russia wins on this one, lol
He actually had an interesting interview In Russia
any details or links? 🙂
I’m disgusted. Joe Biden is a traitor to our country.
He sounds like a very intelligent and well educated person.
Talks more sense than most politicians!!
Hes done nothing that bush obama and biden havnt all done on a daily basis.
and the Clintons…
The US has no idea who they just released. The original Lord of War.
LMAO, hum…, making money selling “things” that kill people. sounds hauntingly familiar & there is a country that does it exceptionally well under the guise of democracy!
Imagine is intelligence to the ongoing war effort. What a deal for Russia…lol
geraldo rivera?..
Merchant of death freed by the merchant of love😀
Do the US sell cotton candy in Africa ??? They sell weapons right!!! so swapping Victor Bout was the right thing to do but for an LGBTQ pothead ???
Russia and China are the enemy. The enemy of the Globalists that own everything and control the West from the shadow. They are the last obstacle to their complete control of the world. I am an American, and I believe every institution in the West is infested with evil people who do not represent myself or my people.
america is out
Hahaha good trade 🤡
they gave back a man like women, that smoked pot, looked like a thug, for a arms dealer????!!!! why not free the marine? what a stupid world we live in
“Infamy, Infamy, they’ve all got it infamy”. Russia seems to have a massive chip on its shoulder. Must be because their leader Ras-Putin has got little man syndrome and sees enemies around every corner. He could have done so much for his people but now reduces his young men to cannon fodder while pulverising innocent countries.
Wtf was america thinking swapping this man for a basketball player that don’t even like her own country😂this man is a liability to American citizens , what exactly is a basketball player going to do for them? She certainly won’t be jumping infront of the bullets to protect the public
Not russia, but moscovia. Its moscovia rebranded as russia. russia is ancient name for rus, which had nohting to do with moscovia. mosovia stole name, history and culture. .
I don’t think denuclearlizates in Russia is such that easy
With such a deal, Russia should find ways locking up more American transgenders.
Nazis USA Nazis EU stop suing proo people’s money
people act like being locked up for 14 years he has no connections… that’s nuts … he recognises and very eloquently states that America is failing and I’m sure it was obvious when Joe Biden let him go that Biden is an idiot.
Nato must be destroyed and forever. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Lol technically this is the biggest trade deal in WNBA history 😂🤣🤣
West is tired of totalitarianism from Russia
US could of traded the merchant of death for both western prisoners, but when your blm, lgqbt and a Democrat. You win!! Political mambo jumbo.
He ll now say everything government asks him cause he is lets call it in a huge debt for his release. No need to listen or believe him
We do not want to destroy Russia but our government does
Comrade Bout will make Russia powerful again!
LOL Amerikka doesn’t need to destroy Russia. At this point Putin destroyed Russia at an astonishing rate.. especially since P.R.China is using Russia right now, effectively Russia became a vassal.
I do think US Democrats globialist want to diminish Russian influence in Europe. But I don’t think American people want to destroy Russia. Russian energy sources insure Russia will have power in Europe in the future. My goals for Europe are pease and stability. Merry Christmas.
My goal is to see the total collapse of western Europe.
Well duh… What do you think NATO is!?? Trump was doing the right thing by trying to make peace with Russia and get rid of NATO. The w.h. and NATO said…”now they know…we gotta create a scene with Russia…get some naieve puppet in there to sign on to NATO.. They already told us what would happen if we do that…and the public is so stupid they praise democracy and criticize capitalism… Which is an oxymoron… They’ll believe anything and TikTok has made sure they won’t research anything.”
No, no. Putin knows better. The U.S. certainly does not want to destroy Russia, she is to be used instead…
But this ancient strategy will not work this time, because the U.S. is out-classed.
Naturally, the U.S. is stuck in this historical strategy, but it’s such a pity, because Putin is first rate, and a very good example of what Christendom, and personal effort can produce. The West should properly be very proud that our culture, from it’s outer edge, could still produce this man. Oh, of course, he also is made of clay, but even now, he still could be the best man to help smooth the inevitable historic geo-political transition.
History will record these days as a tragic lost opportunity for America and the West.
We all know who the biggest arms dealers are don’t we boys and girls!!!!
Everything is not what it seems. Everything is planned
We are too busy destroying ourselves thank you.
I’d say Patton was right, should have turned on Russian in 45 after the war was over. We’ve a more happy world if we did that.
Only one problem, it was not Russia, it was USSR, and the US relied on merchant marines & navy for supplies across the Atlantic. Do you really believe it was the US that destroyed Wehrmacht?
The dunce Biden traded a goldmine for a pothead anti american,stabing the armforces in the back!
Unbelievable, lost total respect for USA, What a joke!
So they arrested him for arms deals. What about the CIA doing the same, but they don’t get arrested 🤔
Basketball star 😂😂😂
I’m still trying to wrapping my head around this deal. I can’t understand it.
This administration is the most embarrassing administration of all time. The only reason they have some followers is because the media does a fantastic job at not covering the content that exposes them.
It is sad for the Russian people but the reality is that Russia will now remain completely isolated culturally and economically from the west for the forseeable future.
The crimes committed by their military in Ukraine will never be absolved until their state has been completely destroyed economically, repations have been paid by Russians for the reconstruction of a free Ukraine, and their politicians and military leaders have been tried for war crimes and executed.
Most of those mobilized by Putin from the unfortunate Russian families that are not members of the Kremlin elites will be killed in Ukraine and if Russia continues its attacks the death toll will spread to Russian cities.
Pute started this and his pathetic clowns like Scabby Olga and Lavatory Boy and Dim Pest and a host of other state vermin seek constantly to justify his actions.
And the Russian people obediently and ignorantly provide the economy that finances this.
Do Russian people really not understand the revulsion, hatred and contempt felt for them now by people of the world outside Russia?
Especially by people like me who remember the 1939-45 war in Europe, whose parents fought in it, and whose relatives were bombed in the Blitz on English cities?
Russian people via their support for their state’s actions, are themselves guilty of murder of civilians, kidnap of thousands of civilian children, deportation of thousands of civilians from their homes in Ukraine to forced exile in Russia, and war crimes.
They are also guilty of a far worse bombing blitz on the people of the free and independant European country of Ukraine than that on the UK in WW2.
We had Bomber Harris back in WW2 and he took some Lancaster bombers and explained things to Germans in Hamburg and Dresden and a few other unfortunate population centres.
Something similar is inevitable for Russia if its sadly complacent population do not wake up and overthrow their Kremlin leaders.
I see y’all like using race, so let’s use race shall we? Yet another example of a White Terrorist, the Merchant of Death Viktor Bout, who noted by the CIA is the most dangerous man on the planet, was traded for a Black basketball player, Brittiny Griner who legally uses marijuana and has a legitimate occupation. The “thug” would be the YT weapons dealer who was arrested for trying to sell 800 million dollars worth of weapons, vs the Black Professional athlete who had less than .009 grams of marijuana in a vape pen. This is the truth, whiten it up…
They wont be able..Bible has a prophecy words on Russia
Merchant of Death released by the merchant of LGBT Love 💘
Good maybe nick cage can do a lord of war part 2
Every decision the current corrupt American President has made to date has been the wrong decision.
Imwan zhe wrst isthe real aggresor here they are activly trying to pressure russia by stationing more and more nato and american troops right on the border of russia
Is he wrong though?
Victor won! he beat them he bet the system !
This reminds me of the Deandre hopkins trade to the Arizona cardinals
It’s disrespectful to title this man…he is a patriot and serving his country. Same as ours…just another solider caught up in the political
russia must get biden son. he could be exchanged for the one man insane clown posse giving speeches in the middle of newscasts sitting in his toilet
Why does you tube take down the main interview or hide it
Wouldn’t it be great if Australia would care for its Nationals the way Russia does? How long has Julian Assange been in Belham prison now? How long has he been persecuted simply for exposing US war crimes?
Putin loves the exchange 😆
Russia needs to stop acting like their country didn’t collapse 30 years from pure ideological insufficiency. To think they can just come back to the Big kids table and tell us what we can and cannot do is pure comedy.
Russia has more nukes then US. Russia > USA.
He should have been sentence to death this criminal
‘Merchant of death’ deserves the biggest arms seller in the world which is america. Millions have died by American weapons.
An arms dealer switched for a lesbian basketball player, pretty good deal for Russia.
There are also American merchants of deaths profiting off of war and death of millions , but people’s memories are short or they’re oblivious to it when America profits off of it.
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Jesus Christ
We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God..
Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household..
Simply explained: US agents and arms dealers can sell weapons to other countries and people of interest to cause riots and uprising but Russian personnel doesnt get a green card to do so. Because most likely he will be selling weapons to the rivals of US interests. This world has divided into two main sides. Guess which one your country in on? This will determine the players of a nuclear world war.
Dog we haven’t wanted to destroy you since the Soviet Union collapsed.
Our government wants to take our guns while releasing an international gun dealer. How does this make since? Ima about to go buy an A.K
The Illegal Arms Trade is illegal because the united states didn’t sell there guns to does governments and the united states makes illegal for people in other counties to do business with other countries , the united states can control every body in the world ? its legal in the united states to buy and sell guns but people in other countries cant buy and sell guns ? and that makes them evil but not Americans that does the same thing ? i just don’t get the ‘hypocrisy”
All this for Brittany Griner.