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Maniac64 posted...

And also that we freed a arms dealer in exchange.

I mean, yeah, that's not great. But this was a guy who was going to see the light of day eventually - he was about halfway through his sentence as it was. And being separated from his contacts for over a decade means he's unlikely to be effective even if he were to return to that.

Griner was obviously seized by Russia the week before the invasion of Ukraine in anticipation of being used a political hostage/pawn and yeah, it sucks that Russia got anything for that, the alternative was to let an American languish in a penal colony for 9 years for basically nothing - pretty sure even analysts of Russia's legal system said that even if you took the charges she faced at face value the penalty she received was pure bullshit.