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In reply to the discussion: Time to Come Home, Edward Snowden, and Stop Hiding Behind a Corrupt Regime [View all]Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)And it's not as if he's constantly harping about the virtues of Russia. He made one unfortunate statement after being granted temporary asylum which is quite understandable since Russia just about saved his life.
You would have a point (and my agreement) if Snowden was on a "Russia is so much better on spying than the US is" campaign, which he is not. He'll have plenty of time to denounce the Russian surveillence state and Putin once he leaves Russia. Demanding that he piss in the face of the one place that granted him temporary asylum while still there is the hight of stupidity and hypocrisy. Any rational being with even the slightest interest in self-preservation wold not do that in his situation.
He did not go to Russia because of their flawlessness, but because they are America's strategic oppononents and therefore welcome his leaks. It's not as if he had much choice. Would you so stringently demand that a Russian whistleblower granted asylum in the US piss in the NSA's face? I think not.