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$360B on nuclear subs, locking into US military strategy, opening up our country to US troops and military hardware, we ask them to free an Australian citizen and the US says piss off! (twitter.com)
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--Former Australian senator, Doug Cameron

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[–] Tilted@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An Australian citizen = Julian Assange

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a super important detail.

[–] patchymoose@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah and characterizing the US response as "piss off" is melodramatic at best