i mean “Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance. Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says”
Play ball and swear his oath and suck up a little to the godfather and live happily ever after
Kick up a stink against Putin and find himself falling out of a closed window (or, best case, being deported and spending his days in a max security prison).
It’s not really like “free will” applies here :)
Whatever the lawyer said is just the minimum required decorum IMO. Just politics. The oath is probably simply required to get the passport.
Putin got to get one-over on the US and Snowden got to stay out of prison (well, in reality a really huge prison but still…). It’s a marriage of convenience.
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i mean “Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance. Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says”
I know… But the point is, he’s stuck there.
He had 2 choices:
It’s not really like “free will” applies here :)
Whatever the lawyer said is just the minimum required decorum IMO. Just politics. The oath is probably simply required to get the passport.
Putin got to get one-over on the US and Snowden got to stay out of prison (well, in reality a really huge prison but still…). It’s a marriage of convenience.