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It was well before the Trump election. Colbert told him that the authorities would come after him in his 2007 appearance on the Colbert Report. The minute he p
by barrysteve 4y ago
It was well before the Trump election. Colbert told him that the authorities would come after him in his 2007 appearance on the Colbert Report.
The minute he published Collateral Murder, a video maximizing publicity on a fatal error in America's war effort, that was it for Assange and Wikileaks.
- croes 4y agoError is quite an understatement
- wazoox 4y agoA "fatal error" in a totally unjustified and illegal war of aggression.
- psychphysic 4y agoThis video is likely to be the highlight of the decade for me. https://youtu.be/s1kwq52NKmo https://youtu.be/s1kwq52NKmo
- f6v 4y agoI like how the audience laughs at the expense of a million ruined lives.
- barrysteve 4y agoCan hardly believe the audience is laughing at dead Americans. Even Bushites are not that callous. They're laughing at his implied admission of guilt and the idea that Putin's unjustified wars are in George Bush's shadow.
- f6v 4y ago> Can hardly believe the audience is laughing at dead Americans. They’re not the victims who died by thousands.
- starkd 4y agoAnd notice how these fatal errors are still occurring. The moment you question the proxy war in Ukraine, you are immediately labelled a Putin apologist. No calls for diplomacy. Meanwhile, 200,000 Ukrainians have been led to their deaths.
- gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y agoIf your homeland gets invaded one day, I hope to be an apologist for your invaders.
- driscoll42 4y agoStrange how you don't comment on the many more Russians that Putin has murdered by his unprovoked war of aggression as well.
- starkd 4y agoStrange how you automatically feel the need to support one side and can't see the horrible outcome this has been for all parties. This could have been resolved through diplomacy. You never see the term even mentioned anymore.
- luckylion 4y ago> This could have been resolved through diplomacy. Yes, by giving Ukraine to Russia. We know how it works if you try to appease fascists, come on.
- starkd 4y agoThis is a more complex than that. I don't like the invasion, but its not like Russia has no vital interests in the area that is right on their border. And they have occupied Crimea in the past going back to 1776. I'm just saying they have as much national interest as the West does. Israel Prime Minister claims they had a deal that was agreed to but Biden administration turned it down. It's also the responsible thing to do to look at the prospects of forcing a war though, when the Urkainians are so heavily outgunned. 200,000 Ukrainians have died in this fight. Maybe 50,000 Russians have died (its hard to find out specifics). The US wants to fight this war on the cheap with the Ukrainians taking all the casualties so that Americans won't have to. That is pretty deplorable to me.