Putin's previous statement of offering asylum to Snowden as long as he stopped leaking was clearly designed to appease an enraged Obama administration. But is he prepared to authorize the smuggling of Snowden to South America in a Russian strategic bomber (or, better yet, a nuclear submarine)? And still there's no guarantee Our Man in Caracas would not be whacked, sooner or later, by a CIA contractor. The ball is now in Russia's court.
Notes:
1. Military Reasserts Its Allegiance to Its Privileges, The New York Times, July 3, 2013.
2. God bless the 'United Stasi of America', RT, July 4, 2013.
3. The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY), TomDispatch, July 2, 2013.
4. See here.
5. Snowden Interview: NSA and the Germans 'In Bed Together', Spiegel Online International, July 7, 2013.
6. Venezuela confirms receipt of Snowden asylum request, RT, July 8, 2013.
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