eli5 When countries swap prisoners how are they sure the other country will actually do it?
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You mean and let the prisoners go when you can see yours.
If you look at the cold war spies were exchanged in the border in Berlin. You can see a similar exchange of POW along the Russian Ukrainian border today.
The Brittney Griner Viktor Bout exchange was done on the tarmac at Abu Dhabi airport where a US and Russian airplane met.
It is a very bad idea to not fulfill your part of the deal. You might get away with it once but then no one else will trust you and you can’t do that again.
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