BRITTNEY GRINER AND THE MERCHANT OF DEATH: AMERICA GAMED AGAIN UNDER JOE BIDEN
Vol. II | Issue. 133 | December 12, 2022
Every hostage is a prisoner, but not every prisoner is a hostage.
Although the practice of taking prisoners to secure financial, political, and criminal aims has been used since fire was discovered, the term"hostage" itself was first used in the 13th Century with a transparently cynical intent to sanitize the term. The term “hostage” has a Latin/French root and was cleverly coined to imply that there was a Guest/Host relationship rather than something as crude and simple as the usual Prisoner/Jailer one. After all, we all know everything sounds better and more civilized in France, right?…
When the hostage complained to their captor about the injustice of their prisoner-ship, can’t you just hear the captor mellifluously responding: “Monsieur, you are not a Prisoner, you are our Guest! We will be done with all of this unpleasantness as soon as your country gives us the $10 Million Franks and releases misunderstood terrorist Jean Pierre, etc.”
In all hostage takings, whether between simple criminals, rogue nations, or states of international terrorists, there is always a calculus and basic question:
What do we gain, and what do we give up to get our hostage (s) back?
The answers to those questions are complex, but simple at the same time.
In the modern era, even Israel, whose anti-terrorist mantra was always "We DON’T negotiate with Terrorists”, has evolved from an absolute to a “sometimes” depending on the stakes of the game.
Israel, however, does things a little differently. After the swap, they make it their mission to track down and do justice, as best they can, to kill the liberated terrorists. The U.S., under the weak, incompetent, and unprincipled regime of Joe Biden, does nothing of the kind.
Enter WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner who was arrested on February 17, 2022, for having cannabis oil in her possession. There is no doubt that Griner, as a result of her celebrity status, was both a prisoner by definition and a hostage by Russian design. The Russians, even with their frequent miscalculations, always strive to play chess. The U.S., in their dealings with Russia under Biden, always plays a poor game of Checkers.
Once the Russians had Griner, the “Woke” Giantess, in their possession, many ignorant, high-profile, useful idiots of the America-hating Left, including male NBA basketball star Lebron James, publicly conveyed their antipathy for America with almost as much zeal as they have plied their basketball trade. That said… America is a Constitutional republic that guarantees Free speech. I just mentioned it as a point of interest and irony. The main topic and conversation here is that Griner, the unfortunate and foolish victim of her own actions in bringing cannabis-laced vaping paraphilia into a US-hostile foreign country, has been a Russian hostage and was foolishly and recklessly traded last week for American Prisoner, Viktor Bout, aka “The Merchant of Death”.
Bout, an international arms dealer, smuggler, and known accomplice to terrorists and terror-aligned regimes, is a viciously malevolent America-hater with clear means to do our Nation harm and was sent back to his beloved Mother Russia. In doing so, the Biden Regime, with his incompetent and very unstrategic team of social worker-style negotiators gave Russia the terror gift that will keep on giving once Viktor Bout gets back to playing his deadly trade. Never forget, when you give a mouse a cookie, he will want a glass of milk...
In fact, Biden’s top ace and negotiating team of feckless Anthony Blinken and his kumbaya gal Wendy Sherman, an actual social worker, in addition to the large-scale strategic blunder in giving Bout back to kill again, created an additional stain of dishonor to America's standing and reputation in the world: They didn’t even bother to demand the release of Paul Whelan, a former Marine, who has been rotting in a Russian Prison since 2018.
The striking blunder in the “Merchant of Death” release as a follow-up to the ignominious Afganastan withdrawal was not only dishonorable, but it also sends a clear message to the world that: “America will desert you, never stand behind you, and your strategic relationship with The United States of America is worthless.”
The Griner / “Merchant of Death” story brings China one step closer to making its move against Taiwan and who can blame them?
After all… They like milk with cookies too.
-Emes