•  Zworf   ( @Zworf@beehaw.org ) 
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    11 months ago

    I know… But the point is, he’s stuck there.

    He had 2 choices:

    • Play ball and swear his oath and suck up a little to the godfather and live happily ever after
    • Kick up a stink against Putin and find himself falling out of a closed window (or, best case, being deported and spending his days in a max security prison).

    It’s not really like “free will” applies here :)

    Whatever the lawyer said is just the minimum required decorum IMO. Just politics. The oath is probably simply required to get the passport.

    Putin got to get one-over on the US and Snowden got to stay out of prison (well, in reality a really huge prison but still…). It’s a marriage of convenience.