Today, Dylan explores the biggest prisoner swap deal between a collection of Western countries, and Russia and Belarus. It is the biggest such deal between Russia and the United States since the Cold War. Most importantly, it is a story of good news in what has recently been a collection of negative, escalatory news. For this reason, it's exactly the story I wanted to cover in this episode.
The episode was recorded on Wednesday 7th of August.
Links:
Substack: https://geopoliticsreport.substack.com/
The Geopolitics Database: https://geopoliticsreport.substack.com/p/the-geopolitics-database
Sources:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/01/world/who-are-detainees-russia-us-prisoner-swap-intl/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/aug/01/russia-prison-swap-us-journalist-evan-gershkovich-wsj-vadim-krasikov-live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/28/russian-spy-norway-canada-brazil-academic
https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2024/08/the-meaning-of-the-prisoner-exchange-between-russia-and-the-west/
https://inews.co.uk/news/i-morning-briefing-what-the-us-russia-prisoner-swap-means-3204639?ico=related_stories
The Historic Russia-US Prisoner Swap