It seems like a false choice to say those are the only two options. Being comfortable in China and Russia implies he had contacts there beforehand, and that wouldn’t make him a whistleblower it would make him a foreign agent.
I’m not saying he didn’t reveal some important stuff to the public while working as a government contractor employed by the NSA, just that I don’t think he’s a cool person and I understand why people don’t trust him.
Nah, it just means he was smart enough to know the US couldn’t extradite him from there. Other, smaller countries could be bribed or bullied into handing him over.
You’re the kind of person who would have defended Italy and Spain joining hands with the Nazis. There is nothing smart about fleeing to Russia because Russia only acts out of greed and malicious intents. France and Germany both spoke out against the USA when the news broke. Austria, Finland, Ireland, Poland, Norway, Spain, and others all stated that they would consider his requests for asylum if he had been present in those respective countries at the time his US passport was revoked.
The condition for which he was granted Russian asylum was that he stopped leaking classified info.
But he had gone straight to Hong Kong while meeting with reporters at the start intending to cross into China, and then he fled directly to Moscow.
It seems like a false choice to say those are the only two options. Being comfortable in China and Russia implies he had contacts there beforehand, and that wouldn’t make him a whistleblower it would make him a foreign agent.
I’m not saying he didn’t reveal some important stuff to the public while working as a government contractor employed by the NSA, just that I don’t think he’s a cool person and I understand why people don’t trust him.
Nah, it just means he was smart enough to know the US couldn’t extradite him from there. Other, smaller countries could be bribed or bullied into handing him over.
You’re the kind of person who would have defended Italy and Spain joining hands with the Nazis. There is nothing smart about fleeing to Russia because Russia only acts out of greed and malicious intents. France and Germany both spoke out against the USA when the news broke. Austria, Finland, Ireland, Poland, Norway, Spain, and others all stated that they would consider his requests for asylum if he had been present in those respective countries at the time his US passport was revoked.
The condition for which he was granted Russian asylum was that he stopped leaking classified info.
But he had gone straight to Hong Kong while meeting with reporters at the start intending to cross into China, and then he fled directly to Moscow.