💭 Russians mock US for swapping ‘Merchant of Death’ arms dealer Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner – with freed spy Maria Butina crowing ‘we made them an offer they couldn’t refuse’
Pro-Putin MP Maria Butina taunted the US for releasing Viktor Bout on Thursday
She said swap of Bout for WNBA star Brittney Griner proved Russia’s ‘strength’
Bout is widely hailed in Russia as an unjustly prosecuted businessman
Prior to release, he served 11 years of a 25-year sentence for terrorism charges
Russian state media are mocking the United States for prioritizing WNBA player Brittney Griner over former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan because of Griner’s race and sexual orientation.
RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan in a television appearance Thursday said she was “very amused but not surprised” that the Biden administration swapped Griner, rather than Whelan, for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, as Whelan has “three problems.”
“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,” Simonyan said.
Whelan, a former Marine convicted in 2020 on manufactured espionage charges, has spent two years in a Russian penal colony. “I was arrested for a crime that never occurred,” he told CNN Thursday. “I don’t understand why I’m still sitting here.” During the television segment, Simonyan and the other panelists repeatedly refer to Whelan as a spy and repeat the trumped-up charges against him.
The segment suggests that Russia’s propaganda machine plans to weaponize the Biden administration’s controversial decision to swap Bout for Griner, who was arrested at a Moscow airport in February for possessing less than a gram of marijuana.
“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,” Simonyan said.
“And well-known, for the sake of PR!” adds another unidentified panelist.
Bout, a former Soviet military translator known as the “Merchant of Death,” was convicted in 2011 of selling weapons to a Colombian terrorist cell that planned to kill American soldiers. Simonyan, whom the State Department calls “Vladimir Putin’s loyal propagandist,” said Bout’s release is “the first good news” for Russia.
“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,” the Russian propaganda chief said, adding that “this says a lot about the state of this society, of these intelligence agencies, and everything related to geopolitical confrontation.”
Griner since her arrest has become a cause célèbre, which likely informed the Biden administration’s decision to prioritize her release over other Americans imprisoned abroad. President Joe Biden has met with Griner’s wife Cherelle several times, inviting her to the Oval Office on Thursday to personally share the news of Griner’s release.
According to CNN, “senior U.S. government officials” visited Whelan’s sister to “share and talk through the news” that her brother was not being released.
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✞ Religious freedom advocates are “outraged” and confounded after the Biden administration again declined to add Nigeria to the U.S. Department of State’s Countries of Particular Concern list, a designation targeting nations restricting or complicit in religious freedom violations. Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at persecution watchdog Christian Solidarity International (CSI), has been among those urging the State Department to reclassify Nigeria as a nation violating residents’ religious liberty – but to no avail. Veldkamp told CBN’s Faithwire the Biden administration’s decision to ignore international outcry over the matter is stunning, particularly in light of the deadly assaults unfolding against Christians in Nigeria daily. “It’s not an exaggeration,” he said. “Every week, Christians are being killed in this country.” Veldkamp shared how the release of the current Countries of Particular Concern was dropped on Friday afternoon, noting this is how “Washington killed news” by burying it at a time when fewer people are paying attention. Tragically, Veldkamp said he had spent the days before the release speaking with priests in Nigeria who witnessed and experienced the unthinkable. “Earlier in the week. I had talked to two different priests from two different states in Nigeria. Really one is in the middle of the country, and one is in the deep south of the country,” he said. “One priest… had just visited a village where 20 Christians were killed the week before. He met a father who saw four of his children killed in front of his eyes.” This same priest met another mother and father who lost one of their children and saw homes being burned. One of those interview subjects said, “I stood on the ashes of human beings.” Watch Veldkamp explain the ordeal.
☆ Illuminati Agenda 21: The Luciferian Plan to Destroy Creation
☪ Depopulation via Islamic JIHAD
☪ Jihad vía Muhammadu Buhari
✞ Christian Genocide in Ethiopia
☆ Illuminati Agenda 21: The Luciferian Plan to Destroy Creation
☪ Depopulation via Islamic JIHAD
☪ Jihad vía Abiy Ahmed Ali
😈 Brothers in JIHAD
Muhammadu Buhari & Olusegun Obasanjo + Abiy Ahmed Ali
💭 Nigeria and Ethiopia are the two most populous countries in Africa
✞ The Massacre in The Sacred City of Axum
As many as 750 to 1,000 Christians were slaughtered on 28 and 29 November 2020 on the grounds of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum.
Accounts from witnesses report that community members went to the compound concerned that an approaching armed group intended to loot the chapel and remove the ark. After a confrontation, scores of these unarmed Christians were massacred by evil Abiy Ahmed’s mercenaries composed, according to survivors, of Eritrean ‘Ben Amir’ Muslim tribes) + Oromo Muslims + Somali Muslims.
Our Lady Mary of Zion is an especially sacred site to many Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. According to local tradition, its Chapel of the Tablet is believed to house the biblical Ark of the Covenant.
☪ We are witnessing that Islam will be the religion of the Antichrist and the world religion in the coming days.
The Illuminati always loved Islam because this is the perfect oppressive religion with a Cube that represents the mind control system over so many people.
🧊 Cube = Control
✞ As opposed to The Lord Jesus Christ – Who died on the cross to allow us to be alright with God.
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