No one knew who this Russian prisoner was before he was in the talks to be released. I’m sure there are more. If there aren’t more, there can be in the future. Also, it’s not ONLY prisoner exchanges that happen. Russians can ask for different trades. When we don’t have to be in Russia for reliable news it makes less sense to put ourselves in the position to HAVE to trade

He wasn’t a threat, supposedly. Regardless, it’s not as if we HAVE to trade him again. There are other prisoners who have high value that Russia could want.

Lol it’s all unverifiable, though. Do you know how much fake news exists that is supposedly “verified?” Like I said, we could just use the already existing outlets or get our information from another country who isn’t in Russians shit list. There’s many ways around having American reporters there if you care enough.

I’m not talking about trading an additional arms dealer. There would be more dangerous people who have in prison who could be released

Supposedly. If the Russians wanted him back it’s likely for a reason. You can’t possibly trust that the US media would tell us the truth, especially when the American prisoner was a black gay female athlete.

We do still get information from Russian sources that are reliable. There are many news outlets that are anti-war/anti-Putin who put out a lot of good information. We don’t NEED to physically be there. Of course there are many pros to having someone there but does it outweigh the cons? Let’s see who they release for the American. Doubt it’ll be favorable in terms of ‘value’

Yeah, now the US may have to swap another high valued Russian to get him back.. should’ve just stayed in the US

Better no trade at all than those two options