3 ms·
>This is basically trolling on an international government scale. Do you also think that giving the refuge to the dissidents form the USSR was trolling as well?
by gdy 12y ago
>This is basically trolling on an international government scale.
Do you also think that giving the refuge to the dissidents form the USSR was trolling as well?
- Tyrannosaurs 12y agoWhich dissidents in particular? Generally dissidents have more in common with the country they're fleeing to than the one they're fleeing from but that's not the case with Snowdon. He's not a communist sympathiser, he's closer to being an American patriot who has done something his government may disagree with because he wants his country to be better. Simply put he's in Russia because it's there or Guantanamo Bay. On the Russian side Putin has no sympathy whatsoever with the principals Snowdon stands for. Putin is a former spy with a penchant for locking up or oppressing those who oppose him. His logic runs no further than my enemy's enemy is my friend. If Snowdon was had revealed similar information about Russian intelligence Putin would be first in line to have him locked up or worse.
- gdy 12y agoYou have an extraordinary ability to read Putin's mind. For one thing, Putin don't seem to have the ambition to dominate the world like the US does and for which the NSA's global eavesdropping is an important tool.
- Tyrannosaurs 12y agoYou don't need to read anyone's mind, he's a world leader with a public history - just a bit of reading will tell you enough about him to make a pretty good guess at what's happening here.
- gdy 12y agoThat was remarkably unspecific.