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That's an obviously absurd belief given he's in an embassy. The USA has done a lot of insane shit but that would be a ridiculous line to cross to eliminate a si

That's an obviously absurd belief given he's in an embassy. The USA has done a lot of insane shit but that would be a ridiculous line to cross to eliminate a single "criminal."

busterarm 8y ago
Pretty absurd. That said, the Saudi government just straight up murdered a journalist in one of their embassies, the whole world knows it and politically it appears things are still business as usual...
- airstrike 8y ago
  How is that comparable at all? And no, things aren't business as usual, there have been lots of developments on that story.
  - mattnewton 8y ago
    Lots of hand wringing to be sure but I don’t see any real deterrents to doing it again.
  - kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
    The house of Saud just crafted their latest excuse about the hit squad being "rogue agents" and they're going to execute some faithful servants to prove their point. That is plenty good enough for Trump to dismiss the issue. American's don't care about mass Iraqi civilian deaths. Journalists are the enemy. A single "fake news" writer won't matter.
- AnimalMuppet 8y ago
  Attacking someone in your own embassy is crossing a line. Attacking someone else's embassy is crossing several more lines.
- komali2 8y ago
  But that's not the United States. They're a straight monarchy...
anon007 8y ago
US/NATO bombed the Chinese embassy [0] in former Yoguslavia so nothing is out of the question. Though this is UK. But still it shows embassies are not outside of US target zone. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans
- onetimemanytime 8y ago
  Yeah but that was a "mistake". Just as it was a "mistake" when NATO thought that the embassy was used as Serbia's military comm center. China stopped complaining after shown what NATO had on them.
  - nyolfen 8y ago
    sorry, what exactly do you think the US had to gain from bombing the chinese embassy in yugoslavia?
    - onetimemanytime 8y ago
      Dear China, stop helping them...
- azernik 8y ago
  In a country with which it was at war and with a badly degraded air defense system. Not against an ally with sophisticated, undamaged weaponry.
coretx 8y ago
I'll give you some absurd and ridiculous details. When the WL backend for collateral murder was hosted at bahnhof in Sweden, moving it to .CH was among other reasons done because of certainly the US, and specifically & allegedly homeland security having launched a DDOS attack so strong it could have kicked Sweden offline. When US agents started their smearing campaign against Assange in Sweden, they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet. In Brussels, WL volunteers where threatened by US agents with silenced pistols in a parking lot. Various so called "influencers", mostly academics and activistic people where payed to spread the false US narrative regarding everything related to Assange.
- azernik 8y ago
  Again - going from there to drone strikes (against an embassy in an allied country with a sophisticated air defense system) is absurd.
  - coretx 8y ago
    Indeed it is. Let me quote Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, /again/. "Can't we just drone this guy". Context: Being confronted with Assange his existence by her staff.
    - kristjansson 8y ago
      Which was (possibly objectionable) humor, but light-years from any sort of actual intent.
- brokenmachine 8y ago
  > When US agents started their smearing campaign against Assange in Sweden, they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet. Citation?
  - coretx 8y ago
    I can't quote it but i can tell you my two independant sources namely Birgitta Jonsdottir ( former Icelandic MP, and one of the people who noticed it ) and Amelia Andersdotter ( former Swedish member of the european parliament, and my ex partner ). Both are highly accessible so you can get your first hand confirmation yourself.
FireBeyond 8y ago
They also believed that the British military had "sealed off several London blocks, aiming rifles at British civilians, had police confiscating cameras, 'which in any case wouldn't work because they were deploying technology to interfere with digital cameras while they raided the Embassy'."
rorykoehler 8y ago
Plenty of absurd shit coming true in the world in the past years. I won't put it past them.

That's an obviously absurd belief given he's in an embassy. The USA has done a lot of insane shit but that would be a ridiculous line to cross to eliminate a single "criminal."

busterarm 8y ago

Pretty absurd. That said, the Saudi government just straight up murdered a journalist in one of their embassies, the whole world knows it and politically it appears things are still business as usual...

airstrike 8y ago
How is that comparable at all? And no, things aren't business as usual, there have been lots of developments on that story.
- mattnewton 8y ago
  Lots of hand wringing to be sure but I don’t see any real deterrents to doing it again.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
  The house of Saud just crafted their latest excuse about the hit squad being "rogue agents" and they're going to execute some faithful servants to prove their point. That is plenty good enough for Trump to dismiss the issue. American's don't care about mass Iraqi civilian deaths. Journalists are the enemy. A single "fake news" writer won't matter.
AnimalMuppet 8y ago
Attacking someone in your own embassy is crossing a line. Attacking someone else's embassy is crossing several more lines.
komali2 8y ago
But that's not the United States. They're a straight monarchy...

anon007 8y ago

US/NATO bombed the Chinese embassy [0] in former Yoguslavia so nothing is out of the question. Though this is UK. But still it shows embassies are not outside of US target zone. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans

onetimemanytime 8y ago
Yeah but that was a "mistake". Just as it was a "mistake" when NATO thought that the embassy was used as Serbia's military comm center. China stopped complaining after shown what NATO had on them.
- nyolfen 8y ago
  sorry, what exactly do you think the US had to gain from bombing the chinese embassy in yugoslavia?
  - onetimemanytime 8y ago
    Dear China, stop helping them...
azernik 8y ago
In a country with which it was at war and with a badly degraded air defense system. Not against an ally with sophisticated, undamaged weaponry.

coretx 8y ago

I'll give you some absurd and ridiculous details. When the WL backend for collateral murder was hosted at bahnhof in Sweden, moving it to .CH was among other reasons done because of certainly the US, and specifically & allegedly homeland security having launched a DDOS attack so strong it could have kicked Sweden offline. When US agents started their smearing campaign against Assange in Sweden, they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet. In Brussels, WL volunteers where threatened by US agents with silenced pistols in a parking lot. Various so called "influencers", mostly academics and activistic people where payed to spread the false US narrative regarding everything related to Assange.

azernik 8y ago
Again - going from there to drone strikes (against an embassy in an allied country with a sophisticated air defense system) is absurd.
- coretx 8y ago
  Indeed it is. Let me quote Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, /again/. "Can't we just drone this guy". Context: Being confronted with Assange his existence by her staff.
  - kristjansson 8y ago
    Which was (possibly objectionable) humor, but light-years from any sort of actual intent.
brokenmachine 8y ago
> When US agents started their smearing campaign against Assange in Sweden, they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet. Citation?
- coretx 8y ago
  I can't quote it but i can tell you my two independant sources namely Birgitta Jonsdottir ( former Icelandic MP, and one of the people who noticed it ) and Amelia Andersdotter ( former Swedish member of the european parliament, and my ex partner ). Both are highly accessible so you can get your first hand confirmation yourself.

FireBeyond 8y ago

They also believed that the British military had "sealed off several London blocks, aiming rifles at British civilians, had police confiscating cameras, 'which in any case wouldn't work because they were deploying technology to interfere with digital cameras while they raided the Embassy'."

rorykoehler 8y ago

Plenty of absurd shit coming true in the world in the past years. I won't put it past them.