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brown9-2 on July 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

This is how relations between countries work. They need to be bilateral by definition. Agreements are weighed on a cost benefit ratio. What country wants to continue to be friends with a country that harbors their fugitives?

dreamfactory on July 2, 2013 [–]

You're fudging the world of difference between not friends and active enemies. US has been using the threat of stick, not removal of carrot.

mpyne on July 2, 2013 | [–]

Apparently it was a carrot, as Ecuador spit it back out, didn't they?

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