President Biden leading international coalition against evil

Trump is a fool   

HEADLINES today . . .

  Biden brings them home!

  Thursday’s massive swap was the result of
complicated behind-the-scenes negotiations
involving the US, Russia, Belarus and Germany.

The deal ends a nightmare that lasted more than
five years for Whelan and more than a year for
Gershkovich.
Both were designated by the US as wrongfully detained.

As the released Americans were headed to the US,
President Biden hailed the power of alliances in the
years-long efforts toward the historic prisoner swap

@fubah2

Coordinated effort by an alliance that respects one another despite some differences  

Trump all but destroyed the foundation of those alliances

@Zeus4par

 Fortunately Biden has worked relentlessly at trying to repair the damage trump caused - particularly in Europe - and there Joe has thus far largely succeeded.

Allies matter in complicated diplomacy involving 24 prisoners and 8 countries.  Although Biden is no longer seeking a second term, he continues to work to secure this deal.  During his administration, over 70 Americans have been brought home who were held hostage abroad.

Awesome day for America and all its allies around the world.  This is what democracy is about.  So if Our Country wants to stay a democracy voters need to send trump and his maga cult back under the rocks they came from.

Whats funny is how trump has kept running his mouth off about how if he was President, he would get the prisoners released in 1 day and how it would have never happened in the first place because putin wouldnt have done this.  WELL DIAPER DON IT APPEARS PUTIN GOT TIRED OF LISTENING TO YOUR NON SENSE AND BASICALLY GAVE YOU A BIG FUCK YOU.  He did this to show you, how you are his little bitch still, not the other way around.

Biden brings them home! 

@thirdperson

Of course Biden admin won't get credit for this outstanding achievement from the rightwing in America.

If anything they (ie, Fox News, et al) will just spin it in some warped way to make it seem a colossal blunder.

Are you trying to say that fox news will spin this into trump making a few phone calls and getting this worked out for biden

In other news trump is still saying is vp harris really black lollll

@cd329

In a related matter,

President Biden and Vice-President Harris are about to meet and welcome home [televised] three American hostages held in Russian prisons which they pushed hard and relentlessly to be released in a prisoner swap, with the help of European allies who have a renewed respect for America since trump was voted out...

Historic night in MD about to happen....

WOW!  Just a great moment in history 

Germany integral in the negotiations as they had to release a Russian murderer from their prison in order to make the deal.  Putin realized this might be the only time to get a deal which HE liked (from Germany's agreement) because it's possible trump may be elected - in which case Germany would refuse to cooperate with trump and would not give up the murderer that Putin wanted the most...

Though I am curious to learn what crucial part Slovenia played at the last moment

Fubah2, 

‘That had to be bittersweet’ — how Biden managed a historic prisoner swap as his campaign was disintegrating

An outstanding report by E. Banco et al. in Politico, it's including the role of Slovenia in this prisoner swap,

“The Germans would be very unlikely to do this for Trump.”--Fiona Hill, a former senior Russia adviser to Trump.

Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, has done this swap deal for Pres. Biden. 

@Europa

 I am so with you on that too, buddy!  No cooperation possible would come from Germany had the leader of the GOP & the Trump Crime Family been in power.   MOST Euro countries despise the CONVICTED FELON.  But almost all in the EU totally respect Biden.

First F-16 fighter jets arrive in Ukraine to boost battle against international terrorism

Biden White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Thursday that no money was exchanged and no sanctions were loosened as part of the Thursday deal involving Gershkovich.

FactCheck.org debunked this Trump claim about his record on securing the release of American prisoners abroad when he previously made it in 2022.

  HEADLINES today . . .

US sending carrier strike group, fighter squadron to Middle East

CNN —

The US is sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East as the region braces for an Iranian retaliation to the killing of a senior Hamas TERRORIST leader in Tehran earlier this week.

Biden helps to rebuild relations with allies while Trump fails to make enemies less dangerous.  As Trump campaigns for a return to the white house, his foreign policies are as reckless and wrong as ever.  He vows to encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want to any NATO member.  He threatens to increase tariffs on all imports to risk trade wars and global recession.  His blunders made US and the world less safe.  For example, killing Iran nuclear deal the most significant peace achievement in a decade.  Now republican Graham proposes military strike to stop increasing Iran threat. 

It is the largest movement of US forces to the region since the early days of the Gaza war in a very public warning to regional militant groups not to expand the fighting.

“We’ve heard the Supreme Leader loud and clear
that he intends to avenge this killing of a Hamas
[terrorist] in Tehran, and that they want to conduct
another attack on Israel,” John Kirby, the strategic
communications coordinator for the National Security
Council, told CNN.

“We can’t just assume that we are not also
potentially going to be victims of that kind of
an attack, so we’ve got to make sure we’ve
got the right resources and capabilities in the region.”