Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bell again. So today we're going to talk about

Republican criticism of the swap with Russia and talk about how political rhetoric

designed to make some politicians sound tough

rarely matches up with reality when it comes to foreign policy.

Trump is currently pretending that he could have done better. Of course that's after he pretended nobody

could get them home except for him. Both claims are wrong. Many public

GOP members have tried saying that the deal will encourage Russia to take more people.

Roger Carson's, who is a retired Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and the current Special

Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, said, Colonel and the current special presidential envoy for hostage affairs said.

The funny thing is, it's just not proving true.

I mean, there's a time when I had 54 cases.

I'm now down to just over 20. So we've made hard changes. We've traded some bad people to get good people, innocent people back.

And he went on to say, so the math proves that assertion could be wrong.

When we make these hard decisions and the president makes that tough call to send someone

back in a trade like this, our numbers are actually going down.

I know, I know, partisan Republicans will forget about his experience and expertise and just say silly Biden appointee just backing his guy.

Except he's not Biden appointee. He was appointed by Trump in 2020.

The West got back 16 people in the exchange for 8 heading to Russia.

The next GOP talking point will undoubtedly be that the Russians

were spies and they'll be put back in play. Yes, some of the Russian prisoners were spies.

To all the espionage understanders out there,

how easy do you think it is to work abroad

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