Weekend July 30, 2022
The Nicolas Cage movie Lord of War was based on the career of the arms dealer / smuggler Viktor Bout.
Here is the movie trailer, click to watch.
Meet Viktor Bout.
click on underline to read article.
He is the loosely based subject of the film starring Nick Cage, Lord of War. Viktor is currently serving a 25 year sentence in the US for arms dealing.
The US is proposing swapping him for the female basketball player Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
Paul Whelan, a 52-year-old former Marine and Michigan-based corporate security executive, has been held in Russia since he was arrested there in December 2018 on espionage charges, which both he and the U.S. government claim are false. In June 2020, he was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years of "hard labor" in a Russian prison.
This of course is a classic play on the part of autocratic governments, grab a couple of innocents and hold them hoping for a swap in exchange for a really nasty type who otherwise would remain in prison.
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