> I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong.
He admitted that he was wrong, and did the responsible thing which is not speculating anymore about things he does not understand.
I mean, unless he had a much broader epiphany and you mean literally everything when you say “things he does not understand”, the tweet you reference, and your (reasonable) characterization of it's overt message read in isolation, doesn't really explain his actual behavior change.
EDIT: It's also worth noting that his next to last tweet, on the last day he tweeted before the six-day pause, was a vague (generally taken as negative) post apparently about Putin’s speech the same day: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1495848959335706630?t=QSI...
I think it's likely he had the epiphany that he'd be a pointed lesson in not mouthing off about Putin while you're exiled in Russia, especially with his wife and kid there.
Given that he's stopped tweeting altogether after the start of the war despite usually posting daily I'm supposed to think he doesn't have opinions on anything any more out of his own volition? Odd coincidence