• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I still don’t understand why he had to leave the country and can never come back,

    and where is he anyway? Who is taking care of him? How does he earn money to survive? What is he doing?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Last I heard he’s in Russia because everywhere else was going to extradite him, and Russia was stoked to have him in the country as a big FU to the USA.

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          8 months ago

          On the surface, but then you see how little actually gets done in the summits that you realize it’s all for show. Or there are deals being made behind the scenes that we’ll never know about.

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          8 months ago

          There’s a very good reason why the US was absolutely jazzed to start sending resources and weapons to Ukraine when Russia started shit. They are not friendly, and never have been.

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      8 months ago

      He immediately got charged under the Espionage Act. If he didn’t leave or if he came back he’d be tried, without a jury, and get either life in prison or the death penalty.

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        8 months ago

        Lol no. He got charged and had his passport suspended a month after he left. He was in Hong Kong on May 20th and they charged him/suspended his passport on June 21st. After he’d been in Hong Kong with top secret documents for a month. He had plenty of time to fly to any of several non extradition countries.

        Furthermore he would certainly have a jury and the federal government hasn’t handed down a death sentence for anything less than murder since the Rosenbergs.