Prisoner Swap with Russia "Offers a Possible Pathway" to Peace in Ukraine: Katrina vanden Heuvel

[Uncle Joe]

We speak with The Nation_'s Katrina vanden Heuvel about the prisoner swap between Russia, the United States and several other countries on Thursday that saw the release of 24 people, with 16 prisoners in Russia traded for eight Russian nationals held in the U.S., Germany and elsewhere. It was the biggest exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West since the Cold War era. Among those released are _Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former U.S. marine Paul Whelan and Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva. Vadim Krasikov, a convicted Russian assassin who was in German custody after the 2019 killing of a Chechen dissident in Berlin, was also released and sent back to Moscow. Vanden Heuvel says it was "an extraordinary swap" that could pave the way for more diplomacy to wind down the war in Ukraine. "Negotiations and diplomacy are not about capitulation. They're about improving the conditions of a world which is too militarized and at war."

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1. Democracy Now

It’s part of the pro Putin left. I can’t believe they are taken seriously by some people. The way peace is achieved in Ukraine is by Ukraine winning not by appeasing Russia. To quote Winston Churchill “appeasement is like feeding a crocodile in the hopes that would eat you last.”

[Uncle Joe]

2. Just people that prefer open information and critical thinking to being continuously sold

by the corporate media.

[PortTack]

3. Paving the way for more diplomacy? Nah...putin has no intentions of stopping!

He knows little donnie is going to lose, and lose to a woman prosecutor that will not budge when it comes to his filthy tricks.