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Russia Today is enemy to America Tomorrow (and vice versa). What is unique to current Cold War 2.0 situation is that Russians like me can communicate to Western
by ommunist 12y ago
Russia Today is enemy to America Tomorrow (and vice versa). What is unique to current Cold War 2.0 situation is that Russians like me can communicate to Westerners like you not being afraid of punishment.
By the way I doubt Snowden receives any permanent residency in Russia. In fact he legally cannot do that, except asking for political asylum. He was only granted 1-year temporary asylum in Russia and will be extradited from Russia in August this year.
- jacquesm 12y agoI wouldn't put it past our esteemed politicians to make backroom deals about stuff like this. Something along the lines of 'we need a new enemy, this terrorism thing is running out, how about a cold-war light?', 'let me get on the horn with Putin and see what he thinks about it...'. I like Russians, have some Ukrainian friends and have spent a good part of my life behind where the former iron curtain used to be. So my perspective is probably quite warped. Putin and his band of cronies are effectively still doing exactly what the communist fat cats were doing, now you have he mafia to worry about instead of the authorities (that may be a couple of years out of date). It's funny how everything changes and yet, the basics are still the same. Real change takes a long time.