I don’t think it’s fair to blame Snowden or Russia for the asylum situation. Why should Snowden make a martyr of himself and why shouldn’t Russia point out the

I don’t think it’s fair to blame Snowden or Russia for the asylum situation. Why should Snowden make a martyr of himself and why shouldn’t Russia point out the hypocrisy of the US? The US government could, you know, drop his charges, thank him for the risk he took in an attempt to improve his country, acknowledge the overreach of the intelligence agencies, and stop doing shady, illegal shit to its own citizens.