The Merchant of Death Rides Again
It's the most wonderful time of the year! There'll be scary ghost stories, and tales of the glories of war criminals from long, long ago!
This week's Gaslit Nation tells two stories. One is about the imprisoned Russian mercenary arms trader who enabled the most brutal people in the world for decades only to be freed in a trade for an American basketball player and released to his homeland to likely help carry out logistics in an imperial war. The other story is about a hammer-wielding maniac and his girlfriend – a "nudist activist" imprisoned for child abuse who roamed the US drugging people…
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