Evil Taking Sides: Erik Prince or Viktor Bout?

Yes although my first reax was:

Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former C.I.A. officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her.

Sooooo not a very good underground operative then? The Dem candidate won the "important" race AND discovered the mole and fired them? Cool cool. I wonder how much money Erik Prince made out of that? Probably a whole lot.

I have to hope that being a "former CIA officer" was helpful in that regard.

SCOOP: Documents Reveal Erik Prince's $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine https://t.co/mQFxl3BFK3

— Simon Shuster (@shustry) July 7, 2021

"Erik Prince, the American defense contractor, said he is offering people seats on a chartered plane out of Kabul for $6,500 per person." https://t.co/UwMoZqzgpG

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 25, 2021

Bout possibly getting sprung in exchange for the basketball player and some supposed spy.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3576618-blinken-to-discuss-proposal-to-free-paul-whelan-brittney-griner-with-russian-counterpart/

dang did not expect to see this asshead intersect with an embattled WNBA athlete

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon - @ksvarnon - has been doing great work on explaining this situation:

http://inkstickmedia.com/why-brittney-griner-is-trapped-in-russia/

From espn:

Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders, according to multiple reports.

The visit came as American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and [Paul] Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in July that the U.S. had made a "substantial proposal" to Russia to facilitate a swap. Though he did not detail the terms, a person familiar the matter told The Associated Press that the U.S. had offered to release convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.