Soo.... one side has entered a country with soldiers and tanks, but the people responding by arming themselves against the soldiers and tanks are the ones escalating?
> Israel is having its Edward Snowden moment. Not in the sense that an employee of its intelligence community has defected to Russia while leaking hundreds of thousands of top-secret files to the media.
Pretty tendentious to say that "Edward Snowden has defected to Russia".
He hasn't defected to Russia. He has fled the USA, and Rusia gave him asylum. Very different.
Snowden was forced to seek asylum in Russia by Biden, specifically, because the US would not agree to prosecute his case fairly, in public, in civilian court. If I was a whistle-blower and was being pursued by a government that wanted to drop me in a black site, I think it's a no-shit-Sherlock decision to run like hell.
They were so desperate to protect the Five Eyes mutual spying and the vast terrifying illegal surveillance network that they decided it was better to effectively exile the whistle-blower.
The U.S. would have bigger problems if the President could guarantee prosecutorial decisions.[1] If Snowden's defense lawyers wanted particular guarantees regarding how they can present their defense, they should be talking to Congress, or at least to the DoJ, not the President.
Obama went after him hard, and Biden, specifically, ran Snowden to ground in Russia, specifically, as a political gambit to discredit Snowden. Specifically.
They announced exactly how he was going to be captured and tried, and it didn't involve the Constitutional protections afforded citizens. Snowden didn't run because he was afraid of going to court, but because the US intended to disappear him.
Snowden is afraid to go to court because, unfortunately, he has no viable defense to the charges. Snowden's defense lawyers want to make a so-called "public interest" defense, but neither the DoJ nor the courts are likely to permit such a defense. (Though, I'm unsure if a court might allow it if the prosecution failed to challenge it.) This is a well known point of contention publicly described by both Snowden and his lawyers for years now.
This is why people, including Snowden himself, can have such a high degree of confidence in the outcome of any trial. For the situation to change, Congress probably needs to modify the law.
Snowden's recent timeline suggests, at least, some degree of transferred loyalty to the Russian Federation. This is coincidental to his bid for citizenship.
At this time, Snowden is pushing the USA to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing support for Ukraine.
Snowden has changed to a full-blown supporter of Assange, as well as to an outspoken critic of recent US FP decisions. He has increasingly shown public loyalty to Russia.
This is all coming a decade after the fact, though.
It was quite clear at the time that he never intended to end up in Russia. A decade on after all of his stolen intelligence is stale, it’s not surprising he would feel pressure to give some concessions to the Russians given that there has been no change back in the US with regards to charging him as a traitor.
Snowden is charged with theft, not treason. He knew that his actions would result in a closed-door trial without the possibility of a public interest defense. He signed a large stack of non-disclosure agreements that spelled out the consequences.
Whatever the perception may have been after 2013, it still is an open question as to Snowden's intent. His first stop in HK, along with his disclosure of US cyber activities against Chinese servers, indicated possible intent to defect to an adversarial state. His next stop was to Moscow, after he may have visited Russian handlers while still in HK. His Moscow voyage did occur a day after his passport was cancelled. He was almost certainly advised, via Assange's camp, that Russia would be a suitable destination. This almost certainly factored into his decision to seek a flight that stopped in Moscow. At best, this was likely a fall-back strategy as it was clear to him and his supporters that hiding in a South American country would not provide the same degree of protection afforded by Russia.
It is difficult to take Snowden's word on his account regarding motivations and (supposed lack of) conspirations. His actions took place during the Magnitsky debacle, including his initial contact to Greenwald.
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Look at his agenda now. He speaks as if he's on USA's side. Yet he admits he no longer represents the USA, speaks out against the USA, and chooses to avoid facing justice. Defection is not a difficult working conclusion to reach at this point, possibly pre-meditated. He certainly had the opsec to cover his tracks while still stateside, having been trained by the CIA.
Snowden, you were silent when Putin declared war on Ukraine in 2014 by annexing Crimea, and you are voicing support for the Kremlin. From my point of view, you are, at this point, a defector to the Russian Federation. You will cowardly avoid facing justice. Your actions have had vast and largely immeasurable consequences to the detriment of western national security -- all of which will be revealed behind closed doors if you choose to return and face the charges against you.
Maybe because Russia realized that Edward Snowden had a powerful name and they'd win favour with the lefties of the world if they protected him? That's one possibility. Or maybe because "let me try and be friends with the (perceived) enemies of my enemies." (although Snowden wouldn't characterize himself as an enemy of the US).
The important point is - a good thing done for bad reasons, might still be better than a bad thing.
Because he was stuck in the Sheremetevo airport when U.S. authorities remotely disabled his passport. He just ended up there. I think he was trying to go to South America or Cuba or something.
Are the logic and the rendering loop in separate threads?
If so, how do you ensure that when the rendering loop reads the shared state, it sees something consistent (i.e. something that hasn't been updated by the logic loop in between the time when the rendering loop started accessing it, and the time when the rendering loop finished accessing it)?
Research is great but common sense is a good starting point.
We know lungs are very sensitive and easily accumulate shit in them. Therefore the reasonable position is to assume that anything you point into your lungs is harmful, unless you have extremely strong evidence that it's not (as opposed to assume that something is safe until evidence that it's not.)
