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‘You can expect everything’: what next for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
(www.theguardian.com)
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That really is not an excuse for his relationship with Russia.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-leaks-on-russian-government-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/
It sounds a lot less like it would be revenge a lot more like it would be marching orders he would be happy to comply with.
The enemy of my enemy is a short-term ally, that might be how he thinks, who knows. I have no side in this fight since I'm not a Assange fanboy and I have nothing but contempt for the USA.
Short-term? That article was from 2016.
In 2016 he had already spent years hiding inside an embassy. It's not that hard to conceive that hatred tends to build over time.
Okay, but you said it was short-term. That is not short-term. And as far as I know, Wikileaks is still very easy on Russia. So how long is this favoritism of his going to last? Why should that be what Wikileaks is about?
It was just a conjecture of how Assange might have thought about. I never said that there really is any link between him and Russia. And it was long ago, when he was still hiding inside Ecuador's embassy, when the hypothetical link between him and Russia was new.
I doubt he still runs wikileaks. Assange was in jail for years.
I don't know and I don't really care.
He wasn't in jail. He was in the Ecuadorian embassy. It sounds like you really don't know the details here.
what? I did acknowledge that:
and:
You literally just said:
So which is it? Was he in jail or not?
He was jailed in 2019. Are you telling me he still managed wikileaks from inside a prison in the UK?
And how many years was he in prison in the UK? Because you said he was there for years.
And we were also talking about what happened in 2016, which, last I checked, was before 2019.
So I take back what I said about you being unfamiliar. You're familiar, just dishonest about it.