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monerozcash12/08/20251 replyview on HN

None of that makes him a Russian agent. That doesn't even make him an useful idiot. Just useful.


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throwawayq342312/09/2025

You're confusing terminology. You can be an agent or an asset of a foreign government without formally working for them.

You could argue Snowden never intended to become an asset of the Russian government but you can't argue that he didn't eventually become one.