Re:Where Is Edward Snowden? Does He Support Russia's Ukraine...
by smt88 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @11:27PM
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> Well, why would his opinion on a matter of military and international law even be relevant? More than any other person, I mean.
It doesn't matter in the general sense. It's just a clue about how principled he is -- something that is at the core of the debate about his extradition and prosecution.
If he is genuinely anti-fascist, as he has positioned himself, then he would be highly opposed to everything about Putin.
Unfortunately I suspect he isn't free to speak out against his protectors.
He's in Russia, not because he was ever particularly keen on Russian policy, but because it was a place outside of the reach of the American intelligence agencies. I expect, like a lot of Russians, he's not particularly keen on it, but the Russian system doesn't exactly put these things up for a popular vote, so neither he nor most Russians is especially well positioned to do anything about it.