I was watching the Oliver Stone interviews of Putin and wanted to take a look at how Putin saw Snowden, given my distaste for the kind of stunt he was involved in.
Turns out that Putin’s way of looking at agents like Edward Snowden and at the surveillance state in the USA actually matches my own.
In the US, on the contrary, there is the usual cartoonish debate [probably fostered by intelligence], in which either Snowden is a traitor who needs execution or he is the greatest hero of modern times.
Well, I was early to deconstruct Snowden accurately and to say he didn’t go about things in the right way, but opportunistically and ultimately counter-productively, even though the substance of his criticism was accurate.
And, yet, though Snowden was a creation of intelligence, I did note that he didn’t deserve to be called a traitor, because the NSA’s global spying really is a problem and not worthy of the name of state-craft of any kind. It is illegal both under domestic and international law. That is the point Putin makes in the interview, that, while there maybe intelligence gathering in Russia, it is lawful….or so he says.
Snowden turns out also to be connected to the Soros network via Greenwald, Poitras, etc, and it is obvious why Soros would have objected to NSA spying…… his own activities would be obstructed by it.
You will need to also go into the links to my previous posts on Soros and Ukraine, including his connection to FEMEN and sex trafficking there.
You will also need to know that the Omidyar network is a sister company to Booz Allen Hamilton, which is an extremely large important government contractor, involved in many, many defense-related industries/technology, including biodefense, biowarfare, and the making of BSL-4 cabinets, which would be the kind of cabinets in which you would keep viruses like the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus, which was being researched in Ukraine, and which has both immediate bioweapon potential as well as long-term pandemic potential, through gain-of-function innovation.
It all makes for mind-boggling rereading today, whereas at the time, I wondered if it the biowarfare part was disinformation, it seemed so far-fetched. Today, it feels spot on.
Anyway, the good sense in what Putin says makes me wonder whether a lot of what is written about him is just Western disinformation. He comes across as more on the level and much more sober than people like Biden, Obama, the Clintons or the Bushes.