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Lol of course it's not Russia that granted him citizenship, it was Putin personally. Can't have people thinking that there's a government outside of the one guy we put there.
I feel like the title was written this way to turn people even more against Snowden and other whistleblowers. Mass media has already implanted a pavlovian reaction to the word Putin in people, they hear the name and they think Big Evil Scheming Marvel Bad Guy who is ontologically evil. By phrasing the headline this way, they can frame it as "Actually, protecting witnesses to US crimes against humanity from retribution is what evil dictators do sweety".
Definitely.
Search for "Snowden" on Twitter and it's nearly 100% liberals wishing for his death. No joke.
Same energy as "THE CCP DID THIS"
Can never imagine there's a state backed by actual normal people. Must be a series of individual actors detached from outside contexts.
~~But also, Putin's crimes reflect on all Russians despite being a singular dictator~~
To be fair, that is a difficult concept to imagine for someone who's always lived in a country run by deranged capitalists