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It takes two sides to negotiate. You're just making excuses for Biden's pitiful negotiation efforts.Could it have been better? Yes. Who controlled that? Putin. He had no reason to want to trade both US citizens and could just have easily canceled the whole deal.
Russia can easily grab the next chucklehead that idiotically brings a cannabis product into Russia and hold them to trade for some real criminal that the US spends tons of effort to capture. At least they can if Biden is the one they are negotiating with.
It was a shit deal. Biden signed off on it.