Seeking a short-term populist win in advance of the midterm elections, the Biden administration has offered Russia an extraordinarily one-sided deal. In return for Russia’s release of the unjustly held WNBA star Brittney Griner and another American, Paul Whelan, the United States would release terrorist conspirator Viktor Bout.

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