>He was called crazy for stating that it was a ruse to get him into the hands of the US. And he was crazy. Fleeing to the UK, America's staunches ally with a l

>He was called crazy for stating that it was a ruse to get him into the hands of the US. And he was crazy. Fleeing to the UK, America's staunches ally with a long history of cooperation with US law enforcement, especially in cases of extradition, in order to avoid possible extradition in Sweden is simply not sane. Even taking the assumptions you're working with, that the Sweden charges were a ruse to allow Assange to be extradited, the argument fails because Assange fled this supposed conspiracy to a jurisdiction that is 100% guaranteed to cooperate in extraditing him to the US. >he had access to better legal advice than is generally dispensed by random strangers on the internet Considering the predicament his apparently genius legal counsel's advice put him in over the last decade, I'd say that's not a given at all. It seems much more like he's acting out of panic and desperation rather than some carefully-crafted legal strategy.