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Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Utycar: 10:17pm On Dec 14, 2022
LastProphet:
This one is still talking about guns and weapons, who hasn't been to Russia before? You? Have you lived in America before? Your Russia can't afford an aircraft carrier and you are here still running mouth?
Baba I am not here to compare myself with you, I have visited U.S twice, spent my summer holidays there in both occasions. And I studied in Russia, Moscow to be specific, apart from Language barrier, I will prefer Russia to U.S, why everyday a young mans dream is cut short as a result of gun violence and its happens on daily basis, drugs, lesbianism and gay, armed robbers, car snatchers, breaking in to people house, name it. But these are crimes u rarely see in Russia,
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Otobong3374(m): 11:03pm On Dec 14, 2022
ednut1:
Can Russia arrest an American arms dealerhuh America too dey overdo
Don't U Know That Man Pass Man? If U Can't Win Them Join Them
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by noisy45(m): 11:26pm On Dec 14, 2022
gimakon2:
All are intelligence Agencies. Depends on where their strength lies.
When it comes to political assisnation fear mossad and kgb
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Nobody: 12:07am On Dec 15, 2022
WriterNig:
Russians are badass. cool

The west are so desperate and helpless as they cannot defeat Russia on the battlefield or with sanctions, so they'll try to defeat it on the media.

When 32 NATO nations including the United States gang up to defeat just one nation Russia. Do you still need anyone to tell you who the most powerful nation in the world is? The U.S wouldn't need NATO if it could defeat Russia on its own.
Deluded man. You write and laugh at what you wrote. What a simp!
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Horokrox: 12:13am On Dec 15, 2022
fortunez1:
Is it that you do watch only the back of ur TV or what ? Let me educate ur ignorance a bit , it is with the help of China and India that Russia was able to cushion the effect of sanctions on Russia and Iran ,Belarus , North Korea and most importantly Iran is helping to Russia to terrorize Ukraine and the west chose to help Ukraine and they are doing just that managing the situation to avoid a world war and a leverless entity like you is there celebrating mediocrity.
Instead of Russia to pack there bags and leave Ukraine after defeats in the battlefield and the call by it's well meaning citizens to leave a poor country alone they are busy bullying and you expect Ukraine not to get the sympathy .
On the contrary your beloved USA and NATO backed Ukronazis army are being decimated like vermin by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation especially in regions like Bakhmut in the DPR but genetically DEFORMED intellectually INCAPACITATED idiots and buffoons like you aren't aware especially when you consume garbage from CNN,BBC,etc and morever nobody takes seriously a clown like you who is ignorant about Economics and Economic Warfare until Reality dawns on you making you harbor suicidal thoughts and finding comfort only in continuous arse licking and cock sucking of the shriveled dicks of the USA led NATO alliance undecided

Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Asour: 12:23am On Dec 15, 2022
WriterNig:
Russians are badass. cool

The west are so desperate and helpless as they cannot defeat Russia on the battlefield or with sanctions, so they'll try to defeat it on the media.

When 32 NATO nations including the United States gang up to defeat just one nation Russia. Do you still need anyone to tell you who the most powerful nation in the world is? The U.S wouldn't need NATO if it could defeat Russia on its own.
Do you really think the US really needs NATO because of Russia?

That's you really believe that in your heart of hearts?

Hahaha hahahaha.

Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by ariesbull: 4:05am On Dec 15, 2022
Kelvin3476:
AS A BRAIN DEAD PUTARD U NEVER KNOW SAY AMERICA AREN'T THE CO FOUNDER OF NATO, NEITHER DID THEY REQUEST TO JOIN NATO.
BEING BRAIN DEAD IS THE WORST ILLNESS.

IF U DON'T KNOW LEMME TELL YOU " AMERICA WAS INVITED INTO NATO FOR ITS PROTECTION , AND THEY ARE DOING IT PERFECTLY ".

NO SANE NATION WANT TO ALIGN WITH A LAND GRABBING RUSSIA.
U DON'T WISH TO KNOW WHY " LATVIA, LITHUAINIA, ESTONIA, FINLAND, GEORGIA, UKRAINE , AZER ETC ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM RUSSIA.

LET RUSSIA HELP CUBA THEIR ALLY LETS SEE
are you really okay ...

looking at Nigerian calling a world class country like Russia bad


Chai...get sense
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Bluntemperor: 5:29am On Dec 15, 2022
paradigmshift:
E no go waste time.. na wetin Putin like b dis.. yeye man
Whe you are operating a One Man Show in a Population of 143 Millions Russian People,just like Hitler,he would not like to die alone!
A Big Shame to Dictators all over the World!
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by MrBONE2(m): 7:41am On Dec 15, 2022
WriterNig:
Russians are badass. cool

The west are so desperate and helpless as they cannot defeat Russia on the battlefield or with sanctions, so they'll try to defeat it on the media.

When 32 NATO nations including the United States gang up to defeat just one nation Russia. Do you still need anyone to tell you who the most powerful nation in the world is? The U.S wouldn't need NATO if it could defeat Russia on its own.
grin

Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by MrBONE2(m): 7:42am On Dec 15, 2022
triple996:
American double standard

Meanwhile they left Ukraine to burn to ash grin
grin

Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Horokrox: 9:11am On Dec 15, 2022
Kelvin3476:
AS A BRAIN DEAD PUTARD U NEVER KNOW SAY AMERICA AREN'T THE CO FOUNDER OF NATO, NEITHER DID THEY REQUEST TO JOIN NATO.
BEING BRAIN DEAD IS THE WORST ILLNESS.

IF U DON'T KNOW LEMME TELL YOU " AMERICA WAS INVITED INTO NATO FOR ITS PROTECTION , AND THEY ARE DOING IT PERFECTLY ".

NO SANE NATION WANT TO ALIGN WITH A LAND GRABBING RUSSIA.
U DON'T WISH TO KNOW WHY " LATVIA, LITHUAINIA, ESTONIA, FINLAND, GEORGIA, UKRAINE , AZER ETC ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM RUSSIA.

LET RUSSIA HELP CUBA THEIR ALLY LETS SEE
The Genetically Deformed brain DEAD IDIOT is you as slowpokes like you can't explain why the USA has more than a thousand military bases in the world also the Donbass has historically been inhabited by ethnic Russians going back to the times of Imperial Russia and also Azerbaijan is allied with Russia and is part of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by VOR2019: 9:16am On Dec 15, 2022
Yeye man. '' ...claimed that he would have volunteered to go to the frontline if he had the “opportunity and necessary skills”

Yeye man. He should obtain the necessary skills and go to the war front to be slaughtered by Ukraine Army.



WriterNig:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/viktor-bout-221212-56.jpg?quality=75&strip=all
Leonid Slutsky (left), the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Viktor Bout showing his membership card at a convention of the party convention in Moscow.

The Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout a.k.a 'merchant of death', who returned home last week in a prisoner exchange for the American basketball star Brittney Griner, has joined Russia's Parliament under pro-Kremlin far-right Liberal Democratic party (LDPR).

In a video posted on telegram, LDPR’s leader, Leonid Slutsky, who was standing next to Bout, said: “I want to thank Viktor Anatolievich [Bout] for the decision he has made and welcome him into the ranks of the best political party in today’s Russia.”

Despite its name, the Liberal Democratic party has, since its foundation in 1991, propagandised an ultranationalist and xenophobic ideology, urging Russia to invade the countries of the former Soviet Union.

The party has also served as a springboard for unsavoury characters into Russian politics. In 2007, Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB agent who is accused by Britain of murdering the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, gained a seat in the Russian Duma for the party.

Bout, whose release has been presented as a major PR win by Moscow, on Monday told Russian media that he had no immediate plans to participate in “any elections”.

Prominent Russian figures close to the Kremlin welcomed Bout’s entry to the LDPR.

“Viktor Bout is not a person, he is an example of firmness,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, a powerful Russian businessman and close ally of Vladimir Putin behind the Wagner mercenary group.

“Bout will certainly be good at the head of any existing party and any movement,” Prigozhin added in a statement posted by his catering company, Concord.

The moment he landed in Moscow last week, Bout was on a Kremlin-organised media tour in which he has praised Vladimir Putin and backed Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/viktor-bout-221212-59.jpg?quality=75&strip=all
Bout, 56, joined LDPR just days after being released from a US federal prison and returned to Russia.

His first interview in Russia was with the state-backed television channel RT and conducted by Maria Butina, who herself spent more than a year in prison in the US for being an unregistered agent of Russia.

“I am proud that I am a Russian person, and our president is Putin,” Bout told Butina, adding that he kept a picture of Putin in his US prison cell.

Commenting on Russia’s war in Ukraine, Bout told RT: “I know that we will win.”

The former Soviet air force pilot, who allegedly has ties to the Russian intelligence services, claimed that he would have volunteered to go to the frontline if he had the “opportunity and necessary skills”.

“Why did we not do it earlier?” Bout said, referring to Putin’s decision to launch the invasion.

Parroting much of Putin’s recent statements that blasted liberalism, he also predicted the end of western civilisation.

“What is happening in the west is simply the suicide of civilisation … And it may be happening in all areas, with drugs and LGBT+ among them,” said Bout.
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Kelvin3476: 9:17am On Dec 15, 2022
ariesbull:
are you really okay ...
looking at Nigerian calling a world class country like Russia bad

Chai...get sense
A DEVELOPING COUNTRY AND NT WORLD CLASS
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by WorkerBoy: 9:20am On Dec 15, 2022
Guys relax, I trust the US

They will soon give him that sort of treatment given to that Iranian general cool
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Horokrox: 9:22am On Dec 15, 2022
LastProphet:
This one is still talking about guns and weapons, who hasn't been to Russia before? You? Have you lived in America before? Your Russia can't afford an aircraft carrier and you are here still running mouth?
You meant your shitty aircraft carriers that even a Soviet Era military vessel the Lun class Ekranoplan can turn to scrap metal considering all the 11 USA aircraft carriers are all lightly armoured in offensive and defensive capabilities

Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Horokrox: 10:05am On Dec 15, 2022
Kelvin3476:
A DEVELOPING COUNTRY AND NT WORLD CLASS
Unlike the neurons in your deceased brain that is undeveloped
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Indifferent12: 2:48pm On Dec 15, 2022
Dalil8:
Check out Viktor Bout’s wikipedia page, it's filled with words like “allegedly”, “believed to”, and “supposedly.”

Has this guy even done anything wrong?.
You must be a clown if you believe a well-known weapon dealer has done nothing wrong.
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by paafin(m): 2:59pm On Dec 15, 2022
fortunez1:
Is it that you do watch only the back of ur TV or what ? Let me educate ur ignorance a bit , it is with the help of China and India that Russia was able to cushion the effect of sanctions on Russia and Iran ,Belarus , North Korea and most importantly Iran is helping to Russia to terrorize Ukraine and the west chose to help Ukraine and they are doing just that managing the situation to avoid a world war and a leverless entity like you is there celebrating mediocrity.
Instead of Russia to pack there bags and leave Ukraine after defeats in the battlefield and the call by it's well meaning citizens to leave a poor country alone they are busy bullying and you expect Ukraine not to get the sympathy .
You need a hankerchief?
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Konquest:
WriterNig:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/viktor-bout-221212-56.jpg?quality=75&strip=all
Leonid Slutsky (left), the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Viktor Bout showing his membership card at a convention of the party convention in Moscow.

The Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout a.k.a 'merchant of death', who returned home last week in a prisoner exchange for the American basketball star Brittney Griner, has joined Russia's Parliament under pro-Kremlin far-right Liberal Democratic party (LDPR).

In a video posted on telegram, LDPR’s leader, Leonid Slutsky, who was standing next to Bout, said: “I want to thank Viktor Anatolievich [Bout] for the decision he has made and welcome him into the ranks of the best political party in today’s Russia.”

Despite its name, the Liberal Democratic party has, since its foundation in 1991, propagandised an ultranationalist and xenophobic ideology, urging Russia to invade the countries of the former Soviet Union.

The party has also served as a springboard for unsavoury characters into Russian politics. In 2007, Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB agent who is accused by Britain of murdering the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, gained a seat in the Russian Duma for the party.

Bout, whose release has been presented as a major PR win by Moscow, on Monday told Russian media that he had no immediate plans to participate in “any elections”.

Prominent Russian figures close to the Kremlin welcomed Bout’s entry to the LDPR.

“Viktor Bout is not a person, he is an example of firmness,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, a powerful Russian businessman and close ally of Vladimir Putin behind the Wagner mercenary group.

“Bout will certainly be good at the head of any existing party and any movement,” Prigozhin added in a statement posted by his catering company, Concord.

The moment he landed in Moscow last week, Bout was on a Kremlin-organised media tour in which he has praised Vladimir Putin and backed Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/viktor-bout-221212-59.jpg?quality=75&strip=all
Bout, 56, joined LDPR just days after being released from a US federal prison and returned to Russia.

His first interview in Russia was with the state-backed television channel RT and conducted by Maria Butina, who herself spent more than a year in prison in the US for being an unregistered agent of Russia.

“I am proud that I am a Russian person, and our president is Putin,” Bout told Butina, adding that he kept a picture of Putin in his US prison cell.

Commenting on Russia’s war in Ukraine, Bout told RT: “I know that we will win.”

The former Soviet air force pilot, who allegedly has ties to the Russian intelligence services, claimed that he would have volunteered to go to the frontline if he had the “opportunity and necessary skills”.

“Why did we not do it earlier?” Bout said, referring to Putin’s decision to launch the invasion.

Parroting much of Putin’s recent statements that blasted liberalism, he also predicted the end of western civilisation.

“What is happening in the west is simply the suicide of civilisation … And it may be happening in all areas, with drugs and LGBT+ among them,” said Bout.
Alright then... we'll see how things pan out down the road for this dude.
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Kelvin3476: 7:08pm On Dec 15, 2022
Horokrox:
Unlike the neurons in your deceased brain that is undeveloped
Ignoramus urchin.
go youtube and read comments from russian citizens.
ODE
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Horokrox: 2:32am On Dec 16, 2022
Kelvin3476:
Ignoramus urchin.
go youtube and read comments from russian citizens.
ODE
Unfortunately for you the majority of Russians(80%) like the present government unlike the opinions of the minority which doesn't count undecided
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Nobody: 6:31am On Dec 16, 2022
What if Bout is now a double agent. Someone declassified by CIA armed with effortenries to infiltrate Russia politics and explode it from within. I see the fangs of CIA in this man's body language, tour and emergent entrance into politics, like someone on an agreed quota time to perform.

Yes KGB agents are known to hold a hardline will, but this swap is full of skirmishes for me to tag this victory for Russia. Is too early to celebrate. This man has been in custody of the best known tactical infiltrators. Ask yourself what America actually stand to gain in this swap deal? Do you think that America is that daft? KGB should keep a high tabs on this man's activity. This is deep bargain. Pray this man proves my fears wrong in the next 5 to 10 years.

One thing I am sure is that Mother Russia will explode from within. I have this fear that America is already planting their agents.
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Kelvin3476: 8:31am On Dec 16, 2022
Horokrox:
Unfortunately for you the majority of Russians(80%) like the present government unlike the opinions of the minority which doesn't count undecided
MORE THAN 80% HATES THE RUSSIAN POLITICS AND PREFER AMERICANS, EVEN THE CHINESE.

GO GET ANOTHER LIE
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Horokrox: 9:16am On Dec 16, 2022
Kelvin3476:
MORE THAN 80% HATES THE RUSSIAN POLITICS AND PREFER AMERICANS, EVEN THE CHINESE.

GO GET ANOTHER LIE
The incorrigible liar and nitwit is you

Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Kelvin3476: 9:22am On Dec 16, 2022
Horokrox:
The incorrigible liar and nitwit is you
urchin go and listen to youtube. There u wil hear and watch them directly.

most of them are even afraid of granting and interview out of fear of the unknwn.
people that are afraid of talking abt abt politics related stuffs are the same people u say are loving to same politics.

joking urchin.
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by Horokrox: 10:03am On Dec 16, 2022
Kelvin3476:
urchin go and listen to youtube. There u wil hear and watch them directly.

most of them are even afraid of granting and interview out of fear of the unknwn.
people that are afraid of talking abt abt politics related stuffs are the same people u say are loving to same politics.

joking urchin.
The shitty YouTube video isn't as accurate as opinion poll collated from the different regions of Russia which a dummy like you isn't aware of

Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by BentizilL: 10:37am On Dec 16, 2022
WorkerBoy:
Guys relax, I trust the US

They will soon give him that sort of treatment given to that Iranian general cool
Inside Russia?? grin
You must be thinking this is Hollywood movie?? Lmao grin
Who dash US courage to kill a Russia official?? cheesy
Re: "Merchant Of Death" & Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Joins Russian Parliament (Photos) by BentizilL: 10:39am On Dec 16, 2022
inspirator1:
What if Bout is now a double agent. Someone declassified by CIA armed with effortenries to infiltrate Russia politics and explode it from within. I see the fangs of CIA in this man's body language, tour and emergent entrance into politics, like someone on an agreed quota time to perform.

Yes KGB agents are known to hold a hardline will, but this swap is full of skirmishes for me to tag this victory for Russia. Is too early to celebrate. This man has been in custody of the best known tactical infiltrators. Ask yourself what America actually stand to gain in this swap deal? Do you think that America is that daft? KGB should keep a high tabs on this man's activity. This is deep bargain. Pray this man proves my fears wrong in the next 5 to 10 years.

One thing I am sure is that Mother Russia will explode from within. I have this fear that America is already planting their agents.
How will US explode??
From without?? undecided
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