The world’s most famous whistleblower, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee Edward Snowden, shared on Twitter part of Friday’s address by the United States (U.S.) President Joe Biden on the crisis in Eastern Europe. Condemning any attacks, Snowden recalled the siege of Sarajevo.
Addressing the nation on Friday night, Biden formally announced a great war in Eastern Europe. He said there was reason to believe that Vladimir Putin would attack Ukraine in the coming days and that his target would be the capital Kyiv.
Snowden published part of that address and wrote that the idea of attacking Ukraine was “sincerely frightening to even imagine”, then he compared it to what was happening in Sarajevo during the last war.
”I still remember the red scars on the streets of Sarajevo, the ‘Sarajevo Roses’ remembering those killed by mortal fire,” Snowden wrote.
He also said that Kyiv is a much bigger city than Sarajevo, which would mean more victims. He also compared the city to the suffering in the city of Grozny during the Chechen war and the Battle of Fallujah in Iraq, where more than 1.000 people were killed, saying that suffering in Ukraine would be “simply unthinkable”.
Moreover, during 2007, Snowden, as a CIA expert, visited Europe, including Sarajevo, which is described in the book “The Snowden Files”. He was a spy and secret agent at the time but he also had the opportunity to see the city as a tourist.
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Source: Klix.ba
