“They’re Losing Their Christian Values.
They’re Losing Their Families. It Is
No Longer the America We Knew” – International
Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Gives First Interview
Since His Release from US Prison (Video)
Gateway Pundit,
by
Jim Hoft
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/11/2022 1:40:35 AM
Victor Bout gave his first interview on Saturday since his release from prison in the US.
On Friday, Joe Biden traded the “Merchant of Death” for pot-smoking America-hating WNBA star Brittney Griner.
WNBA star Brittney Griner was found guilty of drug smuggling with criminal intent in a Russian court back in August. Russian prosecutors pushed for a sentence of 9.5 years in a penal colony.
Russia released Brittney in exchange for international arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/11/2022 2:27:52 AM (No. 1353963)
He sounds more like a redneck American of the past than a Russian "Merchant of Death".
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 12/11/2022 2:33:03 AM (No. 1353966)
He is, unfortunately, not wrong.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 12/11/2022 2:40:26 AM (No. 1353971)
Even a Russian arms dealer can see what Biden and the Dems have done to this country, yet the fools who continue to vote and carry water for them are blind and just plain stupid! Our adversaries can see this as weakness and will damn sure do all they can to exploit and take advantage and they are because the fool on the hill is weak and inept, and half the time can't even read a teleprompter or know where he is. FJB
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 12/11/2022 3:29:18 AM (No. 1353979)
Even Bout knows America is fubared. Even Bout knows that Biden and his minions are destroying America. The Merchant of Death is this time selling the truth.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/11/2022 3:54:41 AM (No. 1353982)
Can’t disagree. Only God can help us and I’m not sure He will. He has allowed other past nations to go under and we’re not that special to avoid the same consequence.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/11/2022 4:35:17 AM (No. 1353986)
Strange how it takes a "Merchant of Death" to spout truth. Thanks Joey!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/11/2022 5:09:07 AM (No. 1353990)
The Soviets' friends and allies have accomplished their goal. They have "buried us".
But I believe.
Lazarus-like, if it is God's will, we will rise from the grave. America is not gone. It sleeps.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sully 12/11/2022 5:43:33 AM (No. 1353993)
Our enemies respected us once.
The US is so rich and powerful that a giant minority of citizens is able to live comfortable lives completely divorced from reality.
Just how long do you imagine a self ruling nation of loons can exist without destroying itself?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 12/11/2022 5:48:28 AM (No. 1353997)
Wow. I think Bout likes America more than Brittney does.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Msquared112 12/11/2022 7:06:06 AM (No. 1354008)
When a Russian arms dealer and “merchant of death” sees America’s decline as clearly as he does, maybe something needs to be done to restore our traditional values.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Sgt. Stubby 12/11/2022 7:13:32 AM (No. 1354011)
That was the end goal of his communist country: Destroy the USA from within. He is gloating.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Edgelady 12/11/2022 8:00:56 AM (No. 1354032)
In the past we’d call it propaganda - now it’s referred to as misinformation. Either way, it’s true enough to be a significant warning. It’s quite ironic.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/11/2022 8:10:04 AM (No. 1354036)
Komrad Bout started out a persona non grata and ended up just another ingrate! His hatred for America sounded more like admiration with his slight recall of the snippit from Reagan's speech. We'll remember Viktor Bout with the same affection most of us have for Jane Fonda.
Trump was right about our enemies!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/11/2022 8:30:07 AM (No. 1354047)
how embarrassing to be told the blatant and unvarnished truth about your own country from the Russian, Soviet "Merchant of Death"
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
billa57 12/11/2022 8:36:16 AM (No. 1354051)
All as planned. Meanwhile, our elected officials sit back and watch. Democrats smile.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/11/2022 8:40:04 AM (No. 1354053)
..But we no longer have crude Tweets from the Orange Man
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/11/2022 9:02:30 AM (No. 1354066)
It is that bad here prompting an international gun runner to take notice. I must say that I agree with him. Even an international war criminal like Bout sees biden the cheater and the corrupt deep state for what they are.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
harleynyc 12/11/2022 9:17:44 AM (No. 1354074)
He's boasting. Russia has been behind every bad deed here for at least 75 years.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/11/2022 9:38:56 AM (No. 1354091)
Bout might be the 'Merchant of Death' but in this case he's the, 'Merchant of Truth'. It's going to be easy to topple the US if the democrats keep this up.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 12/11/2022 10:03:33 AM (No. 1354106)
How many have us have fought back by increasing our own church attendance , group prayer or silent reflection?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/11/2022 10:07:14 AM (No. 1354108)
Bidet is an “arms financier” signing every piece of paper necessary to finance the purchase of arms from arms manufacturers and has enabled their use.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
lennon47 12/11/2022 10:38:18 AM (No. 1354128)
IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPID
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
coldborezero 12/11/2022 10:51:40 AM (No. 1354136)
Re#22: "IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPID".
Yes, and with the enthusiastic assistance of the Republicans. Two wings of the same vulture: Tyranny.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/11/2022 11:07:44 AM (No. 1354147)
The Washington swamp does not represent WE the people...WE are happy and living our lives outside the swamp...WE attend church and stay close to our families...and functioning as best WE can with what Obama and his cabal throw at US....as for the release of this Russian terrorist...it is but a glitch on the screen....I recall when Obama released several of the gito prisoners and gave freedom to the soldier who deserted his post and caused several soldiers to lose their lives trying to find him...he's at it again...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/11/2022 11:20:46 AM (No. 1354158)
If the merchant of death turned out to be a Christian convert, it could change everything. They would kill him or figure out a way to put him back in prison for sure. I don't think what he says makes him Christian--just sayin'.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
vinegrower 12/11/2022 11:34:57 AM (No. 1354178)
I blame a lot of this on illegal immigration. Previously we had a very orderly immigration system but since the mid 60's it has been chaos. Every country had a cap of immigrants, we would accept and those people were carefully vetted. Also at times we would have a pause because we wanted to make sure that the new immigrants assimilated into our American way of life; America was a melting pot. Several decades ago the country became divided by pressing immigrants to keep their culture and language. No one wants immigrants to forget everything about their home countries but we should want everyone to become Americans FIRST.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Ragman73 12/11/2022 12:52:47 PM (No. 1354235)
He may be infamous, but at least a Russian arms dealer tells us the unvarnished truth. The truth that the Washington elites won't tell us. We 're finished as a great nation. Oh, the irony. A criminal lays it all out. Here's the best part - we did it to ourselves. Ancient Rome fell from within. History is simply repeating itself. And because we never learn, it always does...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
lana720 12/11/2022 1:03:59 PM (No. 1354239)
Too bad he never found Jesus in prison, because he speaks the truth.
The real merchants of death are in those who continually kill innocent babies and pass it off as a right…politicians, planned parenthood, pedophiles and this (p)resident.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/11/2022 1:22:41 PM (No. 1354247)
Remember that the Russian Victor Bout, who obviously is not stupid, has been in a U.S. federal prison for a long while and no doubt has been conversing with other (American) convicts and has been reading about the political situation in the USA thereafter obviously forming his opinion about all that.
The reason that the Bout-Griner exchange took place is certainly connected to Democrat identity politics. That began after Griner was arrested after being found with a small amount of a marihuana derivative while going through customs at a Russian airport as she was entering Russia. Right after that, the fact that the Russians were detaining Griner for that violation of Russian law, along with the fact that Griner is a radical US Black female lesbian basketball player became international News. Biden then came out and publicly demanded that Russia immediately release Griner and that he would do everything possible to get Griner released. By doing that, Biden effectively showed his hand to the Russians.
Those Biden statements no doubt alerted the diabolical Russians that they had stumbled across a Biden and Democrat favored LGBTQI individual who they could use as a “get out of jail card” to get Bout released from US federal custody and back to Russia. So the Russian response was to raise the ante by sentencing Griner to nine years in a Russian gulag for a minor offense, rather then if Biden had kept his mouth shut, the Russians would probably have instead just kicked Griner out of Russia. Biden then went along with a Russian proposal that the USA release Bout a very serious international Russian arms dealer who sold Russian arms to terrorist groups intent on killing Americans, in return for Russia releasing Griner. So here we are today with Biden having facilitated a very unequal trade to Russia’s obvious benefit. How that Biden politically related decision will effect Americans traveling abroad who could be taken hostage and used as future “get out of jail cards” to benefit US enemies remains to be seen.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 12/11/2022 1:32:33 PM (No. 1354250)
Bout’s statement amplifies a truth that most of us have been seeing & saying for a number of years.
WTP cannot excuse ourselves by blaming others for the crumbling of Christian values in America. For many years we have looked to & relied on these fallible human beings in D.C. to lead our nation in such a way that would preserve our freedoms and honor our founding as a nation. We have voted for “the lesser evil” hoping for actions that would return America to a righteous course toward good. Yet, many of the elected, and countless unelected, demonstrate by their actions that they have little to no regard for God or anything righteous. We have talked about the reliance on government assistance by those who are able bodied, but will not lift a finger to help themselves with their daily physical needs. Why then would we look to leadership in government to restore our nation to righteousness? The changes needed to save this nation will not come from the government in Washington D.C.
How many among WTP live lives that are the salt and light that Christ calls for us to be? Are we that much different from those we condemn in Washington? Can the people around us see Christian values reflected in our lives? Are we an influence for good in our families and among the people with whom we come in contact in our lives? Do we encourage good, or complain about the bad? What difference does our influence make in the lives of others?
If only twelve imperfect men who dedicated their lives to serving Christ could “turn the world upside down” by being devout followers & servants of Christ, imagine what we could do with numbers far greater than twelve if we had their devotion & dedication to the cause of Christ.
We haven’t begun to suffer as the first century Christians did under the Roman government in the long ago, but we are headed very quickly in that direction. May God grant each of us the desire, knowledge, wisdom, strength & courage to be the salt & light & influence He calls us to be. That is how we can turn things around & save our beloved country. It’s true that the change toward good “begins with me”. He will help us if we help ourselves. He would have saved Sodom & Gomorrah if ten righteous souls could have been found. May God bless us to heed His call to righteousness.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
JimBob 12/11/2022 4:17:38 PM (No. 1354342)
Keep in mind....
This guy has been in PRISON in the US for the last (how many?) years.
He has been in close, continuous contact with FELONS all that time.
Not exactly the 'Church crowd'.
Now, he may have arrived at the same conclusion if he watched American network TV or so-called 'mainstream' news for the same amount of time, or lived in one of the areas where Urban Thug Culture has displaced American culture.
In my neck of the woods, deep in Flyover country, traditional values generally still hold, but with the realization that large parts of the Government, Media, and mainstream religious organizations are corrupted.
Decency is still to be found, but locally, in our friends and neighbors.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 12/11/2022 5:07:17 PM (No. 1354377)
God, grant me the strength to withstand the harsh criticisms of an international arms trafficker.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
GirlwithaCurl 12/11/2022 9:08:19 PM (No. 1354475)
I'd vote for this guy if he was running against FJB. This is exactly why Putin is destroying Ukraine because they are becoming too western.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
ldb51 12/11/2022 9:40:45 PM (No. 1354483)
I've been wondering for some time, through all of the bluster and war hype, whether one of Putin's goals is not trying to keep globalist wokeness out of Russia.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
ldb51 12/11/2022 9:57:48 PM (No. 1354497)
Just wondering if Victor might have helped Obama/Biden out with Fast and Furious, etc. You know, these people couldn't manage their international tinkering without people like him in circulation.
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