I’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,

I’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.