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Ecuador folded because Assange was inside the embassy, in what ultimately is UK soil. There was no way, when push came to shove, to prevent him from being captu

Ecuador folded because Assange was inside the embassy, in what ultimately is UK soil. There was no way, when push came to shove, to prevent him from being captured. If Assange was in Ecuador proper, they might not have folded, or he might have been able to leave Ecuador for, say, Cuba before the hammer dropped. I imagine this was Snowden's plan since he wanted to go to Cuba, Ecuador, or Venezuela. If he wanted to stay in Russia he wouldn't even have noticed his passport being deactivated, and if he wanted to go to China, he would have went to Shenzhen from Hong Kong instead of going to Russia first.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-assange-smeared-his-feces-on-ecuadorian-embassys-walls-president-says/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-assange-smeared-his-f... Maybe they were tired of him smearing shit on the walls of their embassy.
- kobalsky 3y ago
  don't you find it too convenient that the journalist the US want to annihilate happens to be a poop-smearing rapist ungrateful douchebag?
anticensor 3y ago
> . If he wanted to stay in Russia he wouldn't even have noticed his passport being deactivated, Unlike the US, Russia requires one to carry an ID.
- int_19h 3y ago
  In theory, it does. In practice, pretty nobody actually does this, because it's largely unenforced, and on the other hand, nobody wants to lose their internal passport and have to go through the headache of replacing it. Losing your international passport as a non-citizen would be even worse.
- sudosysgen 3y ago
  A cop on the street isn't going to check whether your passport was or wasn't revoked (and in fact simply can't). You would only notice that at the airport. And he did in fact claim that he noticed this in the airport, when trying to leave Russia.
mjan22640 3y ago
An embassy is a soil of the embassy country.
- sudosysgen 3y ago
  This is a misconception, it isn't. It's extraterritorial-ish, meaning that the host country temporarily and revocably confers the privilege for that area to be under different laws. It's revocable at any time with sufficient notice, and it stays sovereign soil of the original country.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-assange-smeared-his-feces-on-ecuadorian-embassys-walls-president-says/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-assange-smeared-his-f... Maybe they were tired of him smearing shit on the walls of their embassy.

kobalsky 3y ago
don't you find it too convenient that the journalist the US want to annihilate happens to be a poop-smearing rapist ungrateful douchebag?

anticensor 3y ago

> . If he wanted to stay in Russia he wouldn't even have noticed his passport being deactivated, Unlike the US, Russia requires one to carry an ID.

int_19h 3y ago
In theory, it does. In practice, pretty nobody actually does this, because it's largely unenforced, and on the other hand, nobody wants to lose their internal passport and have to go through the headache of replacing it. Losing your international passport as a non-citizen would be even worse.
sudosysgen 3y ago
A cop on the street isn't going to check whether your passport was or wasn't revoked (and in fact simply can't). You would only notice that at the airport. And he did in fact claim that he noticed this in the airport, when trying to leave Russia.

mjan22640 3y ago

An embassy is a soil of the embassy country.

sudosysgen 3y ago
This is a misconception, it isn't. It's extraterritorial-ish, meaning that the host country temporarily and revocably confers the privilege for that area to be under different laws. It's revocable at any time with sufficient notice, and it stays sovereign soil of the original country.