She got everything right when she returned to America and thanked everyone for getting her returned. America is not just the best place because of our freedoms, America is the only place to get these freedoms.
Unfortunately, president Joe Biden traded Brittney Griner for notorious arms dealer, Viktor Bout one of Russia’s most prominent arms dealers, who is also known as “The Merchant of Death” who will sell more weapons to small dictators who will probably use them against Americans and other innocent victims.
New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez said he had concerns about Bout being free.
“We cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision,” he said. “We must stop inviting dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans overseas as bargaining chips, and we must try do better at encouraging American citizens against traveling to places like Russia where they are primary targets for this type of unlawful detention.”
Bout is particularly notorious for his role in the first and second Liberian civil wars, which killed 250,000 people and destroyed much of the country. Between 1989 and 2003, Bout sold arms to warring factions in the conflict, most notably to corrupt former President Charles Taylor, violating several United Nations arms embargoes.
In addition to Liberia and Afghanistan, Bout was also active in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Angola, Yemen, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia. Bout was arrested on March 6, 2008, in Thailand in a sting operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. If Bout were to return to his old work, the U.S. military would focus on relaying to allies in Africa that he does not have their best interests at heart, the senior DoD official said.
Brittany seems more than happy enough to return to America, so we wish her well.
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