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If one country wants to kill you why wouldn't you flee to a different one and give them everything you have against the first country?

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Sorry, but is Russia or the USA the one most likely to kill Snowden? Oh, yeah, it isn't Russia, because Snowden avoids saying things that could trigger his KGB handlers to disappear him... Like denouncing a genocidal war of aggression against a neighbor, or the assassination of journalists and political opponents, or the repression of any opposition in the streets...

By leaking American info, Snowden painted a target on his back that can be reached by the USA and all allies with extradition agreements. That leaves him with very few superpowers who won't hand him over to the FBI/CIA and execution or imprisonment.

If I were in his shoes, I too would relocate to a superpower not allied with the USA and avoid getting involved in anything political over there.

Execution? A few years of imprisonment at worst. Trump has pardoned worse people (the guy from SilkRoad for instance).

Russia may execute him anytime though. And his family. Easy to pretend he was killed by an Ukrainian bombing.

Well when Trump pardons him, he'll come back. Trump won't pardon him, because Trump supports deep state mass surveillance.

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