Mariia Butina Gets Deported Back To Russia After Serving Prison Sentence

Mariia Butina arrived in Moscow, Russia on Saturday following her deportation and 18-month stint in prison for her failure to register as a foreign agent.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1258372

I wonder if the NRA gifted her an engraved AK saying thanks for your service?

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Maria, don’t touch any doorknobs…

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You’re next, Donnie.

Back to the Motherland…

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What is her fate to be? Dacha or a fall from a window in a tall building?

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Now I look forward to reading long form stories on how she’s implementing NRA policies in Russia.

Making Russia safe again. Right?

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Where she’ll be treated like a cosmonaut back from Mars, complete with a movie epic that will turn up on the Netflix back catalog.

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Good. Enjoy your life, make the most of your opportunities, and don’t come back.

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Ya’ll don’t back here ya hear!

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I’m sure she’ll be back in some form. After all, she’s not Mexican. She’ll get here somehow.

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Fly little red sparrow.

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Where are we now with Paul Erickson?

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And did we ever learn whether it was coincidence that Trump called on her at FreedomFest and had a ready answer to her question? Or is the answer to my question self-evident?

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Perusing Russian mail order brides as we speak?

Must love long walks on the beach -with guns. Romantic candlelight dinners -with guns. And, oh yeah, undermining America’s national security. Guns optional for that one.

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Guessing it’s good stuff. She created an incredible amount of chaos across a wide swathe of the landscape. And now nobody knows who’s doing stuff because of Russian bucks. Pretty sure that suits Putin just fine. Might well have been the mission in the first place.

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Don’t drink any polonium, Maria, and stay away from balconies above the ground floor.

Of course, her experience makes her too valuable to burn her, so she’ll get advanced training and be put in charge of bigger projects (unless she’s been turned, which I doubt). Putin’s house of cards is build on cheap oil and gas, lots of preening and posing, and dirty tricks. Just like the GOP.

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Yeah. I don’t know that she is/was an especially gifted agent. It’s just that her marks were so greedy, so venal and corrupt, they were ripe for the pickings. In fact, despite knowing all we now know, I’ll bet they still pine for her. But give her credit for a successful mission from the Russian standpoint, I guess.

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Surely, she’ll begin advocating, once again, for the right to bear arms in Putin’s Russia.

This cause is her life’s work, and she’ll be whipping post-Soviet prols into gunning up in no time.

Assault rifles, bump stocks, hollow-point bullets…

She’s gonna make sure every Russian man, woman, and child is armed to the teeth.

Right?

Right…?

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Putin right now be like "Is this Polonium 210 any good?"
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I suspect the NRA is staying as far away from her as possible…

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