Thread: Edward Snowden and his stay in Russia

I understand that Putin just can't play edgy leftist as some Latin American Presidents, he just plays in the higher league. But he could at least make a "good" face and let some local authorities comment the situation instead of him.

Originally Posted by Basil77

I understand that Putin just can't play edgy leftist as some Latin American Presidents, he just plays in the higher league. But he could at least make a "good" face and let some local authorities comment the situation instead of him.

Very well put. I thought he was capable of showing some Russian muscle & character while not actually being an "edgy lefty". But he has indeed been put in a spot.

I really have high expectations on him though; he himself is the one who wants to portray himself as a Superman. So do something cool with this; what a PR opportunity for Russia!

Like I said before, there are more countries in the world, than the USA, and they too are looking to see how Russia handles this. And even amongh EU/Europeans, quite a few people are disgusted by the overall behaviour of the USA in this. Just look at the mass protests in Germany. Angela Merkel stays polite (and she'd better! her entire country is packed with US military bases and staff!)

Originally Posted by Hanna

Like I said before, there are more countries in the world, than the USA, and they too are looking to see how Russia handles this. And even amongh EU/Europeans, quite a few people are disgusted by the overall behaviour of the USA in this. Just look at the mass protests in Germany.

As far as I understood Germans don't care much about Snowden's fate etc. They are abused with the fact that according to Snowden's data PRISM is spying on Germany more than on any islamic country full of potential terrorists. They thought that USA is the best friend of Germany and took the idea of friendship too seriously. And now it appears that all the expensive PRISM was about stealing German technologies rather than about catching terrorists. Now Germans are in the process of making conclusions and the history teaches the world to fear processes of such kind in Germany. That may be the main reason why USA establishment is so angry.