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…you just reposted the quote I gave you implying he doesn’t support that war and wishes he could actually say it more bluntly. And the first link I mostly read and found nothing like what you wrote about it being a “psyop”.

Fleeing life in prison or execution in a hurry doesn’t determine one’s principles. I find that a weird claim.

I will look at the other links but so far this has been…disappointing.

Snowden essentially sacrificed his freedom to show that the US government is spying on its citizens. If anything were to imply principles, that would be it.

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…you just reposted the quote I gave you implying he doesn’t support that war and wishes he could actually say it more bluntly.

No, I highlighted the part of your quote in which he implied that the war was not imminent and that anyone who ‘understands the conflict’ at a time when America was warning of the oncoming invasion, would understand that Russia had no desire to invade Ukraine as a means of resolution of the ongoing political dispute.

From one of my other links

“So… if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3 a.m., I’m not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility,” the whistleblower said.

Fleeing life in prison or execution in a hurry doesn’t determine one’s principles. I find that a weird claim.

So if I expose, say, Britain’s wrongdoings in World War 2, and flee to Nazi Germany, do I have:

A. Principles

B. No Principles

Cowardice is not a principle.

Of course, that assumes a choice between two countries, as stated before, large swathes of the world don’t have extradition treaties with the US, yet he just happened to choose (with the help of Assange) the fascist state.

Very curious.

Snowden essentially sacrificed his freedom to show that the US government is spying on its citizens. If anything were to imply principles, that would be it.

“He did something I like, so he has principles”

He pissed off to a cushy position in Russia where he gets constant asspats from the terminally online while lending credibility to a fascist regime. Principles are not high on his list of priorities, quite apparently.

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You’re really going to compare this Nazi Germany…? Yikes.

I have read and agreed with many things you’ve written but you’re just wrong about this one. Doesn’t seem you’re open to challenging your view though, so that’s fine.

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You’re really going to compare this Nazi Germany…? Yikes.

… you’re really going to say modern Russia, a brutal totalitarian state, invading a neighboring sovereign state unprovoked and performing genocide isn’t comparable to Nazi Germany?

… really?

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