The Russians gave NSA leaker Snowden a one year visa to stay in Russia, avoiding extradition to the US. Which doesn't make the US or the Obama adminstration happy. The Administration has been whining that the Russians gave them no warning. It was obvious to the dimmest bulb in the house that the Russians were considering granting Snowden asylum ever since Snowden failed to make his plane to South America a couple of months ago. He has been camping out in the Moscow Airport ever since. If that isn't enough warning, I don't know what is.
Trouble is, there isn't much we can do about it. The Russians don't buy much from us, we don't buy much from them. We have no international interests in common. Other than sending them nastygrams, we are pretty much stuck with it. Russia isn't Pakistan, doing an Osama style helicopter raid won't work in Moscow.
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