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Snowden would not have been safe from kidnapping in South America. Once his location was known, he would have been as good as captured. Only Russia or China hav
by atlantic 12y ago
Snowden would not have been safe from kidnapping in South America. Once his location was known, he would have been as good as captured. Only Russia or China have the kind of military might that could deter the US from attempting to take him back by force.
- dragontamer 12y agoAll the while, Julian Assange hangs out at the Ecuador Embassy, ready for the taking. FYI: Snowden was trying to get to Ecuador when Russia trapped him in Moscow.
- toyg 12y agoSnowden was going to Ecuador only after he went public, because at that point it was about politics, not black ops. A little-known individual can be easily taken out in US-friendly countries (see CIA "extraordinary renditions"), that's the threat he neutralized by being in Hong-Kong -- which is not just "China", it's a very complex country with a separate political system where both China and China's enemies have to tread carefully; by saying "he went to China" you're just pushing your own frame -- but then again, you already know that, don't you?
- rosser 12y agoIt's an entirely different proposition to kidnap an "enemy of the state" from an embassy than it is to kidnap one from an entire country.