Who is Viktor Bout and why might the US trade him for Brittney Griner

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08/31/22 • 49 min

James, Gare, and Shereen talk about the “merchant of death,” prisoner swaps, the international arms trade, and Bout’s weird home videos.

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James, Gare, and Shereen talk about the “merchant of death,” prisoner swaps, the international arms trade, and Bout’s weird home videos.

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It Could Happen Here - Who is Viktor Bout and why might the US trade him for Brittney Griner

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Welcome to It Could Happen Here podcast about how the world is falling apart and sometimes about how to put it together, but today mostly about the people who are accelerating the falling apart. Garrison's with me, Sharen's with me. We are talking today about the Merchant of Death, the Lord of War, Victor Boot. So she probably started off by talking about why we're talking about Victor Boot. Victor Boots always an interesting topic of conversatio