I get you.
but… checks and balances and running inventories.
guys like him are why nuclear warheads wind up missing for 40 years.
Muddy the waters and put tech/weapons in the hands of the truly evil.
that marine held on espionage charges ain’t even a worthy trade
Viktor Bout was arrested for supplying weapons to a US designated terrorist group in a sting operation.
America literally said, "we consider these people to be terrorist, so we gonna put you in our prison for 25 years."
How can one country unilaterally decide a group of people are terrorists, perform a sting operation on a businessman and then throw him in their prison?
America supplies more weapons than anybody.
America has built the militaries of entire governments.
America can build the military of Israel, that has created expansionist apartheid state, and nobody is calling for charges against US military officials, US defense contractors.
America can build the military of South Korea and Japan, that serves as an antagonist to China. And China isn't calling for the arrest of US defense contractors or military officials.
America can build the military of Saudi Arabia, which actually funds terrorists that destabilizes the Middle East.
But Viktor Bout got arrested in Thailand minding his fucking business, in a sting operation performed by America because he was going to sell some weapons to Colombia FARC that was gonna kill Americans.
He wasn't arrested because he sold weapons that actually killed people. He was arrested in a made up scenario that a "terrorist group" that doesn't target America but Colombia and only operates in Colombia, was gonna kill Americans with the weapons he sold.
Nah man, lol. Lol this dude's arrest was bullshit and politically motivated.
Lol selling weapons to warlords in Africa do not make you a dangerous arms dealer, every European government has done that at least once.
They made him seem like he was more than a one man operation.
Boeing and Raytheon have a stock ticker and are more dangerous and destabilizing and evil than Viktor Bout.