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Being stranded in Moscow because the State Department cancels your passport while you're en route to Ecuador = "defection"? Cute.
by miguelazo 3y ago
Being stranded in Moscow because the State Department cancels your passport while you're en route to Ecuador = "defection"? Cute.
- phatfish 3y agoI doubt Russia cared much about a cancelled US passport. If they felt he was not worth something to them they would have made sure he was out of Russia. Personally I don't think it was intentional on his part to get stuck in Russia, just a bad error. But he is certainly living there by their "good will" now, and it shows in his public behaviour.
- miguelazo 3y agoRussia may not care (doubtful), but the airline will not even let you board. Not trashing your host is probably wise, but given his experience with the US government, he probably no longer subscribes to the naive worldview that Putin (or Xi) are uniquely bad, just bad in their own ways and responding to the world with their nation's interests (and their legacies) in mind.
- phatfish 3y agoThis is a fun narrative that the US is just the same as the Russian or Chinese governments, i wonder who could benefit from pushing that... The fact Snowden is still alive pushing anti-US propaganda shows the difference, if the roles were reversed he would have been assassinated long ago.
- mardifoufs 3y agoOh no, not anti us government propaganda. That's a capital sin. Everyone who disagrees with the US government is obviously a sovi-i mean a Russian plant.
- miguelazo 3y agoYup! It's amazing how often you see this pathetic red-baiting even on HN where you expect people to be more thoughtful.
- miguelazo 3y agoYou mean the way the US/UK is slowly assassinating Julian via the torture of extended solitary confinement (and only because it was too hard for them to do it in one fell swoop)?
- CodeArtisan 3y agoAlso this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident