Trump published an exchange rate for political prisoners. Georgia oligarch took notes

Last year, Washington demonstrated that political prisoners are a convertible currency.

After visits and calls from President Donald Trump’s envoys, Alexander Lukashenko released dozens of them in two batches — and sanctions on Belavia, the Belarusian state airline, came off in return.

Whatever the merits of that trade, its lesson traveled.

In Tbilisi, the man […] ...