Russia has become more interested in a prisoner swap with the United States after it became clear that Donald Trump might return to the White House, a senior US official said. The Wall Street JournalThe reporter, Evan Gerskovich, was released.
of journal I got it. “Moscow’s concerns about a possible Trump presidency hastened the agreement,” he said Saturday.
He added:
Germany’s negotiating team was led by Philipp Wolf, deputy head of the BND foreign intelligence service, a former prosecutor who joined the intelligence agency in 2007.
Wolf’s team seized the opportunity when the Russians said they wanted to finalize a deal before the U.S. election in November. Some officials said the Russians were worried about an unpredictable Donald Trump becoming president again, or that they might be worried about the possibility of a new administration. [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz is likely no longer willing to support a president who rarely misses an opportunity to criticize Germany.
At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last month, Trump specifically Said“And I say to the whole world: We want the hostages home. If they are not home before I take office, there will be a very heavy price to pay.”
Trump has boasted about releasing Americans held overseas without forcing them into the kind of unfair exchanges the Biden administration has accepted, and critics argue that it creates an invitation for more hostage takings in the future.
In 2018, Turkey released American pastor Andrew Brunson after the fall of the Trump administration. Threatened Severe economic sanctions will hit the Turkish economy.
Russia, for its part, may have preferred to negotiate with a more amenable Biden administration, which has shown a willingness in the past to swap valuable, even dangerous, prisoners for Americans held overseas.
Biden’s prisoner swap leaves many Americans in Russian prisons journal I got it. Separately.
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