Prisoner swap underway between U.S., Russia, and other countries (1 Viewer)

Uncomfirmed details, at this point.

Incumbent said:

Uncomfirmed details, at this point.

Russia-US prisoner swap: Biden hails relief of returning Evan Gershkovich

US president Joe Biden was surrounded by the families of those that have been released today as he spoke from the White House

www.independent.co.uk

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I think it's always best to let some guilty people avoid justice to avoid innocent people being imprisoned. This is just a variation of that if it's true.

Seems to be confirmed now.

Said to involve a lot of people, more than the two we hear about the most.

4 jets on ground in Ankara

aannnnnnnnnnnnd, just a reminder.....

MT15 said:

Said to involve a lot of people, more than the two we hear about the most.

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Someone on CNN reported 16 on one side, 8 on the other.

efil4 said:

aannnnnnnnnnnnd, just a reminder.....

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Putin to Trump, "you went full idiot. You never go full idiot. You're of no more use to me. You're fired!"

Someone on Twitter said they think this indicates Putin now thinks Trump will lose the election for sure or he wouldn’t have made this deal.

Trump will just claim this was a bad deal (giving 2-1) and that he would have gotten 1-1.

MT15 said:

Someone on Twitter said they think this indicates Putin now thinks Trump will lose the election for sure or he wouldn’t have made this deal.

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This deal was in the works for months from what is being said. It probably had more to do with Putin showing strength and getting support than what Trump is doing.
To do a prisoner exchange, the person has to be convicted and that is likely why Evan’s trial happened recently.

Damn. Swap includes two children as well.

Nebaghead said:

This deal was in the works for months from what is being said. It probably had more to do with Putin showing strength and getting support than what Trump is doing.
To do a prisoner exchange, the person has to be convicted and that is likely why Evan’s trial happened recently.

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Putin will play it off as strength, but all of the people he's getting back are arms dealers and intelligence operatives from what I've seen. I think Putin is desperate to get all hands on deck, because of the situation in Ukraine and what just happened to the Russian mercenaries in Mali. The Russian war machine is taking a beating.

B4YOU said:

Trump will just claim this was a bad deal (giving 2-1) and that he would have gotten 1-1.

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Please…Trump will say that Putin did this now because he is scared of what Trump would do once he became president.

Great speech by Biden. Speaking on exactly why diplomacy and having allies is far more important than going it alone. Hostages from the US, Germany, and Russian citizens were freed.

People will complain about who were returned to Russia. But in situations like this, it's never going to be a win-win. Someone's going to have an advantage in the end and unfortunately, Putin had the cards.

FullMonte said:

Please…Trump will say that Putin did this now because he is scared of what Trump would do once he became president.

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And sure enough, CNN just aired JD Vance saying exactly that.

GrandAdmiral said:

Great speech by Biden. Speaking on exactly why diplomacy and having allies is far more important than going it alone. Hostages from the US, Germany, and Russian citizens were freed.

People will complain about who were returned to Russia. But in situations like this, it's never going to be a win-win. Someone's going to have an advantage in the end and unfortunately, Putin had the cards.

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It's not really that Putin has all the cards, it's just that he cares less about the people and more about exacting a high a price as possible. You can tell that for Biden, his administration and the other western countries that participated in this deal, their priority was securing the release of citizens and people that were innocent and suffering unjustly in Russian prison solely due to the malice of Putin and his government. For Putin, the main objective was securing the release of criminals who were the most contemptible and guilty of their crimes and making the US and other western countries pay a high a price as possible for their citizens release. He doesn't actually care about the Russians that were released as part of the deal, that's just ancillary.

If soleless and uncaring is what translates to holding all the cards, then Putin will always have that hand.

Gotta love it...