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originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: galien8
Trump is not right.
The criminality of revealing the evil machinations of tyrants (no matter which side of the political spectrum they issue from) will never and must never be seen as anywhere near as great as the acts they reveal.
Snowden for example, gave American people the chance to comment on and respond to government invasion of privacy, unconstitutional and therefore illegal invasion of privacy. The invasion of privacy is of course a greater crime than revealing the fact that the invasion happened, to the victims of it, greater by several times in fact, because it is a crime perpetrated by a state against its people, and therefore a much larger concern to the people.
When information is in the public interest, governments are not permitted to with hold that information for their convenience. Governments are only permitted to keep secret, that which is expressly necessary to protect the physical well being of their agents, and the nations security as a whole. None of the information released by Snowden, or indeed the information concerned with the recent releases from the CIA, has anything to do with the physical safety of agents in the field, nor does it expressly or even indirectly affect the security of the nation in general. It simply shows criminal, or criminally stupid behaviour, for what it is.
The day people start believing that releasing information like this to the public, is an immoral act, is the day you might as well get a tattoo of a Swastika and start enjoying Oompah band music.
What is treasonous about ending the cold war, enemy mentality that the US (establishment) has with Russia?
Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams correctly point out, the whole crisis originates from the U.S. backed overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 , Ukraine’s constitutional and democratically elected President. The U.S. backed regime that seized power in Ukraine as a result of this coup has pursued a militantly anti-Russian line, provoking the secession of Crimea and Russia’s actions there. Though this has created a crisis on Russia’s border in an area where the U.S. has no direct interest, the U.S. continues to meddle, fanning tensions and internationalizing the problem.
Head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has claimed that the OSCE mission made radical and nationalistic forces in Kiev responsible for yet another escalation in Donbass. It was evidenced with reports of special OSCE mission. The whole of demarcation line has become a 'hot zone'. As a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelling, a lot of peaceful civilians were killed, social infrastructure was destroyed. Many people were left without water, electricity and heat,' Lavrov said. - See more at: www.pravdareport.com...
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Wearedone
What is treasonous about ending the cold war, enemy mentality that the US (establishment) has with Russia?
At what price ?
It was Russia that started this new Cold War through their actions in Ukraine , now this administration seems intent on removing sanctions placed on Russia for annexing Crimea and being complicit in the shooting down of a civilian airliner with no obvious concession from the offending party , that seems like a big win for Putin and the middle finger for the rest of the international community to me.