• demonsword@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Putin captured him to use as a pawn against the US

    This is not how things happened. He got stranded in Russia when the USA cancelled his passport, he was en route to Ecuador (at the time they had a government that was willing to give him asylum).

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      2 months ago

      You don’t need a passport to claim asylum. The whole story reeks tbh. He stayed in Russia because he wasn’t allowed to leave. Or because he was a Russian agent. But there are many diplomatic avenues to get from one sympathetic country to another for a legitimate asylum claim.

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        2 months ago

        But there are many diplomatic avenues to get from one sympathetic country to another for a legitimate asylum claim.

        So you say, without providing any proof such avenues exist.