Who Is Viktor Bout?

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

WNBA star Britney Griner is imprisoned in Russia and, apparently, the U.S. is making Russia an incredible offer to get her out. Last week Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that America had “put a substantial proposal on the table.”

That proposal? The return to Russia of convicted international arms dealer Viktor Bout. This so-called Merchant of Death’s story is an amazing one. It even inspired a 2005 Nicolas Cage movie, some six years before Bout’s arrest.

With us today to talk about it is Sean Williams. Williams is a journalist and the co-host of the excellent Underworld Pod, a show about the worldwide phenomenon of organized crime.

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0:25.0	Frankly, that seems to be the problem.
0:31.0	Welcome to Angry Planet.
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0:37.0	I'm Matthew.
0:38.0	Hello, Welcome to angry planet. I'm Matthew Galt. And I'm Jason Fields.
0:47.0	WNBA star Brittany Griner is imprisoned in Russia and, apparently, the U.S. is making Russia an incredible offer to get her out.
0:55.4	Last week Secretary of State Antony Blinking said that America had put a
0:59.8	substantial proposal on the table. That proposal the return to Russia of
1:04.7	convicted international arms dealer Victor Boot. The so-called Merchant of Death's
1:08.6	story is an incredible one. It even inspired a 2005 Nicholas Cage movie, some six years before Boots Arrest in 2011.
1:17.2	With us today to talk about it is Sean Williams.
1:20.2	Williams is a journalist and the co-host of the excellent underworld pod, a show about the worldwide phenomenon of organized crime.
1:27.0	Sean, thank you so much for joining us.
1:30.0	It's a pleasure, yeah.
1:32.0	So I'm excited to learn about all things boot that weren't covered in the documentary I saw a few years ago about him.
1:39.0	You want to learn all about it? Yeah, oh, we're going to do that all episode. Yeah, number one. Yeah. Okay, so who is Victor boot? That is a good question in itself.
1:55.0	He has a lot of different faces and reputations depending where you're coming from.
2:06.0	If you've seen that documentary that you mentioned incredible collection of sort of home videotapes
2:12.0	and the like that he accrued over the years.
2:14.7	There's also that Lord of War movie with Nicholas Cage, which despite the provenance of the main
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