Episode 324 Viktor Bout, The Merchant of Death: Part 1

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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GET LIVE SHOW TICKETS: https://www.universe.com/events/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-belfast-tickets-belfast-83V5QD SUPPORT THE SHOW, GET THE CONCLUSION TO THIS SERIES RIGHT NOW: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109935474?pr=true Check out Failure to Launch: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/failure-to-launch/id1585592962 *since the time of recording, all prisoners involved in a possible exchange for Viktor Bout have been released. Once upon a time the film Lord of War was made about the international arms dealer Viktor Bout. They had to tone it down in order to make it more believable. Bout, a possibly, maybe GRU operative became the premier arms smuggler for anyone in the world who needed it, contributing to the deaths of untold millions and fueling wars that continue to rage to this day. sources: Estulin, Daniel, Shadow Masters Greg Cambell. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/magazine/arms-and-the-man.html https://archive.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/wanted/2008/0624convenience.htm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viktor-bout-russia-arms-dealer-merchant-of-death-brittney-griner/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/09/armstrade.internationalcrime Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun. Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody if you ever wanted to see us live but you miss the other shows well you have another chance me and the boys are hitting the road once again
0:09.4	The lines led by Dunkey's podcast is coming live to Belfast at the O-Yam Music Center,
0:16.0	Saturday, October 26th.
0:18.8	So get your tickets while they last.
0:21.3	You can find the link in our show notes. So get them now. Do it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hey everybody. Welcome to the Lions led by Donkeys podcast. It's
1:05.1	1992. I'm Joe. Tom and I are standing in front of an old
1:09.6	who-believ Soviet transport plane. The metal on its side has long since rusted through and we're pretty sure the engine is smoking,
1:16.0	even though it hasn't even been turned on yet.
1:18.0	We have spent the last several hours loading unmaintained explosives into the back while
1:22.1	Nate continues to argue with us that yes
1:24.1	the drunken Ukrainian pilot that he found in a bar in the Congo was technically
1:28.2	wanted on an Interpol arrest warrant but that didn't matter because we're flying into Kabul but most importantly according to the transnistria Ministry of Aviation
1:36.4	Sergei's pilot certification is completely legit. Hey guys
1:40.8	Idi Mahoui, we're going to Congo.
1:43.0	You know, I will say this.
1:45.0	What would you rather trust your life with?
1:48.0	And my 17 that's got soot on it for some reason and a guy with a bottle of vodka and a Russian Hawaiian shirt who does know how to fly and make it fly for an American aircraft like a Chinook or Boeing with exactly one loose bolt.
2:04.4	It's the bolt that kills you.
2:05.7	Which one you think is going to get you?
2:07.0	Were you alive?
2:08.0	I'm trusting anything that is rusted and rush in.
2:11.6	My question is, assuming the pilot of the helicopter is not Armenian.
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