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In his first interview since his release from prison after 11 years, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout gave his insight on America’s decline and the Ukraine conflict.
Speaking with RT on Friday after returning to Russia, Bout explained that America’s widening political divisions won’t likely result in another revolution because the nation’s youth have been pacified by drugs.
“I don’t believe they’ll have a revolution in the United States. They’ve been able to keep it under control despite, for example, all the drug issues and overdoses. It is all according to a plan. When young people become drug addicts, they lose their will to do anything,” he told host Maria Butina.
Viktor Bout, who has just returned to his homeland after a prisoner swap, told RT that a revolution in the United States is unlikely, as they have been able ‘to keep it under control, despite the drug issues’ in the country. pic.twitter.com/ZI5bzHcyOZ
— RT (@RT_com) December 10, 2022
Bout also blamed America’s decline on the woke LGBT ideology permeating America’s schools, calling it the “suicide of civilization.”
“What is happening now in the West is the suicide of civilization.
It is spreading all over the place: both drugs and LGBTQ…Now in American schools they teach first graders that, it turns out, there are 72 genders,” he said.
Recently freed from jail in the US, the “merchant of death” Viktor Bout tells Maria Butina how horrified he was to learn in America that there are 72 genders
“Not just gay people and normal people, but 72!” pic.twitter.com/nMw7k0hpvl
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) December 10, 2022
Later in the interview, Bout said that nobody he knew in the U.S. prison believed the mainstream media coverage of the Ukraine conflict or the U.S. elections.
“In my prison, there were 35 people, and no one believes CNN or other networks on the Ukraine, on elections. Everyone knows that all of this is not true,” he said.
Even in prison no one believes Mainstream Media’s coverage of Ukraine conflict pic.twitter.com/GdvW4ZFoIn
— RT (@RT_com) December 10, 2022
Bout also said he didn’t understand why Russia didn’t launch its military operation against Ukraine sooner following the 2014 Maidan coup that marked a “turning point” for Russia’s geopolitical relations with NATO and the U.S.
“A Russian man like me, I never understood why we didn’t do this earlier. Of course, I do understand that not everyone was ready,” he said.
‘I never understood why we didn’t do this earlier’ – Viktor Bout on military operation in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/FDujfj57iZ
— RT (@RT_com) December 10, 2022
“I fully support the special military operation. If I could, I would share the skills I have and I would readily volunteer,” he added.
Bout, aka the “Merchant of Death,” had been sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2010 by the U.S. government for providing material support to terrorists before becoming part of a high-profile prisoner swap between Russia and the U.S.
Joe Biden’s regime on Thursday released Bout to Russia in exchange for “woke” WNBA player Brittney Griner, who had spent 10 months in a Russian prison on drug charges.
Biden’s exchange of a WNBA player for a notorious arms dealer was widely panned by American officials as a big “mistake” and “madness.”
Even Russian media mocked the one-sided exchange as “very amusing.”
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