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He is not going to make it to Ecuador. Only thing Assange can do now is sit inside the embassy for indefinite period of time, until Ecuador gets bored with assa
by gary4gar 14y ago
He is not going to make it to Ecuador. Only thing Assange can do now is sit inside the embassy for indefinite period of time, until Ecuador gets bored with assange and figures he is not worth the damage of ties with Uk. another possible outcome is rather extreme -- UK goes on offences and arrests assange from the embassy.
Either way, it would be interesting how the whole story will play-out.
- rwmj 14y agoWhat evidence do you have for your claim that "UK has already blocked Ecuador embassy's supplies"?
- oinksoft 14y agoThe source is a "tweet" saying that a truck carrying the next day's supplies for the embassy (whatever those comprise) was turned away. This message was from ... Wikileaks. But the BBC reported police surrounding the embassy so it is not unbelievable that a supply truck was turned away. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/235953183032217600 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/235953183032217600
- ErrantX 14y agoI suspect you've misunderstood the tweet; the embassy is near Harrods, they are turning away ''Harrods'' suppliers. At least that is what I heard.
- peteretep 14y agoIt would be highly unusual for any Ecuadoreans to be living in the embassy, given that the UK is a stable, safe, and nominally friendly country. Perhaps it's one of the few non-US ones where that's true, but I doubt it. "Blocking supplies" is a weird concept for a building where and of the non-Assange residents can simply exit the building, walk 20m to the nearest Tesco, and return with 4 bags of vegetables and microwave dinners...
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- youngtaff 14y agoIt's unlikely as the same building houses private flats and the Columbian embassy
- gary4gar 14y agoi read that in news but can't find the link. so removed it
- daveying99 14y agoWas it a truck carrying supplies to nearby Harrod's department store? That's what I remember reading.
- toyg 14y agoViolating the Vienna Convention is the diplomatic equivalent of nuking Teheran. The world would be horrified at the UK, and their embassies worldwide would be physically threatened almost instantaneously. I hope even this amateurish government can understand that. Whatever happens, and regardless of the man, today has been a sad day for international relations, and hence for peace. I thought this government couldn't get any worse; I was wrong.
- peteretep 14y ago> The world would be horrified at the UK, and their embassies worldwide would be physically threatened almost instantaneously Funny you should mention Tehran, given that the Iranians recently stormed the British embassy there, and ... the world didn't end!
- EliRivers 14y agoIran is _already_ considered a pariah state that nobody wants any dealings with.
- slurgfest 14y agoExcept to many Latin American countries. And Syria and Lebanon and Palestine. And Turkey... Actually, no, Iran is NOT a pariah state that 'nobody' wants any dealings with
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- toyg 14y agoPalestine is a pseudo-state, Syria and its de-facto protectorate Lebanon are in disarray. Iran does not have the breadth of interests and worldwide presence Britain has, nor a problematic (recent) colonial past. Despite this, their actions make it very difficult for them to build solid, trusted alliances with reliable partners. Britain has a worldwide web of influence because it has proved through recent history to be a trusted and reliable partner for many allied countries. If they start pissing all over the Vienna Convention and be branded as unreliable by their peers, less people will be keen to hear their reasons on all sort of matters, and the already-waning British influence will see a dramatic decline. It's already hard enough to lecture China as it is; if Hague "renditions" Assange, the Chinese will rightly feel entitled to simply laugh to his face whenever he brings up "human rights".