I understand 1 and 2; I just don’t understand why his passport is relevant. The threat is what made them withdraw the offer of asylum, not the revoked passport.

I understand 1 and 2; I just don’t understand why his passport is relevant. The threat is what made them withdraw the offer of asylum, not the revoked passport. Related, I also don’t understand why, if the US was able to pressure other countries into withdraw their commitments, they wouldn’t just wait until Snowden was in one of those countries so they could pressure for extradition.