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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Gershkovich and Whelan...
Date: 08/01/2024 9:46 AM
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...are coming home.

US Marine Paul Whelan was captured in Russia under Donald Trump's administration, and he did nothing. Trump said he would get Gershkovich released, but only if elected in November, otherwise he could rot in a Russian prison.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are getting both men home.

Russia and the United States have agreed to swap prisoners in an extraordinary multipart deal, according to a senior Biden administration official.

The swap will allow the two wrongfully detained American citizens held by Moscow, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, to return home.


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-agrees-free...
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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Gershkovich and Whelan...
Date: 08/01/2024 10:16 AM
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Trump said he would get Gershkovich released, but only if elected in November, otherwise he could rot in a Russian prison.


Classic Trump. Only he matters and everything is transactional.
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Author: weatherman   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Gershkovich and Whelan...
Date: 08/01/2024 10:54 AM
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as usual, it will be a highly asymmetric trade.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c29d6k382k5o

some of these rumored are putin opponents...likely a death sentence.
others of course are actual criminals\terrorists\murderers\spies and will get promotions.

americans, even journalists, are too naive when going to authoritarian regimes. it has been established that foreigners are to be scooped for western trades.
not to mention those traveling anywhere with weapons and ammo...you are LEAVING gun-nut nation !
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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Gershkovich and Whelan...
Date: 08/01/2024 12:17 PM
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americans, even journalists, are too naive when going to authoritarian regimes. it has been established that foreigners are to be scooped for western trades.
not to mention those traveling anywhere with weapons and ammo...you are LEAVING gun-nut nation !


That's why I don't go places that have that threat. In the Philippines there's an island(s) and a corner of a very large island that have Abu Sayyaf presence - just don't go there. The NPA are more into revolutionary tax than actually doing anything. Duterte let a bunch of them out of prison to get the NPA to the table and they ingored the table, so he began dismantling them, and many times peacefully.

The Muslims and Morros are a different story, they laid a small siege on a town. Abu Sayyaf left their island and went over to Bohol and raised hell. Didn't accomplish much but they kept being spotted different places. Abu Sayyaf normally will hold people ransom, but they executed some this time around,
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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Gershkovich and Whelan...
Date: 08/01/2024 2:23 PM
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Anti-NATO, isolationist Don Old doesn't understand, but president Biden and vice president Harris do...

Biden: "The deal that made this possible was a feat of diplomacy and friendship. Multiple countries helped get this done ... so for anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do. They matter. Today is a powerful example of why it's vital to have friends in this world."

America is stronger with friends and allies.

Trump is too old and too weird to understand.
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Author: weatherman   😊 😞
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Date: 08/01/2024 2:37 PM
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that's cause trump would have cut a deal directly with putin in 1 day.

hey MAGA, unfalsifiable much? ever understood the concept? still waiting on improved obamacare and a mexican-paid border wall?
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