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You missed out the bit where they were making ham-fisted public threats to any country who even so much as thought about taking him in.
by dreamfactory 13y ago
You missed out the bit where they were making ham-fisted public threats to any country who even so much as thought about taking him in.
- Kapura 13y agoI missed that part too. Source?
- marvin 13y agoThreats to cancel trade agreements if Equador grants asylum to Snowden: http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/26/sen-menendez-threatens-ecuador-trade-cuts-over-snowden/ http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/26/sen-menendez-threatens-ec... Snowden's claim that the Vice President of the US is involved in similar political pressure against multiple of the nations Snowden has requested asylum from: "Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions." This is obviously political "wheeling and dealing" to interfere with Snowden's right to request asylum.
- brown9-2 13y agoThis is how relations between countries work. They need to be bilateral by definition. Agreements are weighed on a cost benefit ratio. What country wants to continue to be friends with a country that harbors their fugitives?
- dreamfactory 13y agoYou're fudging the world of difference between not friends and active enemies. US has been using the threat of stick, not removal of carrot.
- mpyne 13y agoApparently it was a carrot, as Ecuador spit it back out, didn't they?