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Maybe the US can set a nice example by dropping Julian Assange's charges first
by zidad 4y ago
Maybe the US can set a nice example by dropping Julian Assange's charges first
- LadyCailin 4y agoLet’s assume they do. Would that make a difference? Gay marriage is legal in the US, why is it not legal in Saudi Arabia? So your suggestion is completely irrelevant.
- nailer 4y ago> Would that make a difference? Would it get this guy out of jail? No. Would it make a difference? Yes. It would give the US some moral high ground so that tin pot regimes don't have the 'US imprisoned a guy for reporting war crimes' defence.
- curiousgal 4y ago-\infty + 10000 = -\infty
- janalsncm 4y agoI’m a complete idiot when it comes to geopolitics but I’ll put my tongue in the hornets nest in lieu of coffee today. I would like it if Assange were let out, and I would like it if the US truly had a moral high ground. However there is little to no political capital in ideological consistency. If there was, the US would classify Saudi Arabia in the same camp as Iran: repressive and untouchable. I suspect the realpolitik of the situation is something more like: ally with one, shun the other. SA has more strategic value, so Iran gets the shaft. Anyways, the point of this is not to defend Iran. The point is that Assange isn’t in trouble for ideological reasons, but for political ones. He crossed the wrong people. George Washington himself would be in the same position if he ran Wikileaks.
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- andirk 4y agoAssange threatened the Military Industrial Complex, the most powerful arm of the US government which all other parts dare not impede on under any circumstances. Similarly but far more broadly, these admins mentioned things the Saudi Arabian government didn't like. While the two corrupt governments are best of friends, they seem to have no sway in what the other does. See: bone saw.