Additionally, you neglect to mention that is was the US actions in cancelling his passport that stranded Snowden in the Moscow airport that he was transiting through on the way to Ecuador.
" The Chinese government made the final decision to allow Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, to leave Hong Kong on Sunday, a move that Beijing believed resolved a tough diplomatic problem even as it reaped a publicity windfall from Mr. Snowden’s disclosures, according to people familiar with the situation."
You know that's what they would've done, it's what they have always done. He has been proven right about this since he left.
And what does all of this Russia China FUD have anything to do with anything? China and Russia are both technically our allies. The right loves Putin now. What kind of neoliberals cold war playbook like people like you even reading out of. Suddenly the US has all these fake allies and we're supposed to just know we're at war with secretly, and they didn't know anything about the Snowden stuff so he gave them this secret treasure trove of data that got people killed and put our soldiers at risk.
Grow up. You're parroting propaganda here.
So it's 100% on the US government that he ended up in Russia and not Ecuador
Once it got escalated past them, onto Putin's desk, Snowden wasn't going anywhere. Why would he let a juicy trading chip like that go?
Why not?
The fact of being a whistleblower is orthogonal to whether you abscond and where to. And Russia wasn't a "hostile country" - many of the biggest companies in the US had operations in Russia.
You need to explain this. Why should a whistleblower have to go to prison? Don't deflect with whataboutisms.