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Yes, and if you are a citizen of a free country that defects to a mafia state to help in their PR efforts, such an action should be called out for what it is.
by seppin 6y ago
Yes, and if you are a citizen of a free country that defects to a mafia state to help in their PR efforts, such an action should be called out for what it is.
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoSnowden didn't defect to Russia. The US trapped him there by revoking his passport while he was traveling through on the way to Ecuador.
- seppin 6y agoWhy do otherwise smart people keep saying this over and over? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24860909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24860909
- Matticus_Rex 6y agoLiterally no one contends he defected for the purpose of helping Russia's PR, so you calling it out as that is deliberately slanderous.
- seppin 6y ago> Literally no one contends he defected for the purpose of helping Russia's PR Right, including me. That just happened to be the result.