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by komali2 2777 days ago
That's an obviously absurd belief given he's in an embassy. The USA has done a lot of insane shit but that would be a ridiculous line to cross to eliminate a single "criminal."
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I'll give you some absurd and ridiculous details.

When the WL backend for collateral murder was hosted at bahnhof in Sweden, moving it to .CH was among other reasons done because of certainly the US, and specifically & allegedly homeland security having launched a DDOS attack so strong it could have kicked Sweden offline.

When US agents started their smearing campaign against Assange in Sweden, they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet.

In Brussels, WL volunteers where threatened by US agents with silenced pistols in a parking lot.

Various so called "influencers", mostly academics and activistic people where payed to spread the false US narrative regarding everything related to Assange.

Again - going from there to drone strikes (against an embassy in an allied country with a sophisticated air defense system) is absurd.
Indeed it is. Let me quote Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, /again/. "Can't we just drone this guy". Context: Being confronted with Assange his existence by her staff.
Which was (possibly objectionable) humor, but light-years from any sort of actual intent.
>In Brussels, WL volunteers where threatened by US agents with silenced pistols in a parking lot.

I live in Belgium, but never heard about this, when did this happen, do you have any references?

> When US agents started their smearing campaign against Assange in Sweden, they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet.

Citation?

I can't quote it but i can tell you my two independant sources namely Birgitta Jonsdottir ( former Icelandic MP, and one of the people who noticed it ) and Amelia Andersdotter ( former Swedish member of the european parliament, and my ex partner ). Both are highly accessible so you can get your first hand confirmation yourself.
I am trying to understand "...they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet."

The way I understand it they added something to wikipedia before it happened? How did they know it would happen?

On wikipedia articles you can view the history of pages, it would be interesting to locate the exact edit...

US/NATO bombed the Chinese embassy [0] in former Yoguslavia so nothing is out of the question. Though this is UK. But still it shows embassies are not outside of US target zone.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans

In a country with which it was at war and with a badly degraded air defense system. Not against an ally with sophisticated, undamaged weaponry.
Yeah but that was a "mistake". Just as it was a "mistake" when NATO thought that the embassy was used as Serbia's military comm center. China stopped complaining after shown what NATO had on them.
sorry, what exactly do you think the US had to gain from bombing the chinese embassy in yugoslavia?
Dear China, stop helping them...
They also believed that the British military had "sealed off several London blocks, aiming rifles at British civilians, had police confiscating cameras, 'which in any case wouldn't work because they were deploying technology to interfere with digital cameras while they raided the Embassy'."
Plenty of absurd shit coming true in the world in the past years. I won't put it past them.
Pretty absurd. That said, the Saudi government just straight up murdered a journalist in one of their embassies, the whole world knows it and politically it appears things are still business as usual...
Attacking someone in your own embassy is crossing a line. Attacking someone else's embassy is crossing several more lines.
How is that comparable at all? And no, things aren't business as usual, there have been lots of developments on that story.
Lots of hand wringing to be sure but I don’t see any real deterrents to doing it again.
The house of Saud just crafted their latest excuse about the hit squad being "rogue agents" and they're going to execute some faithful servants to prove their point. That is plenty good enough for Trump to dismiss the issue. American's don't care about mass Iraqi civilian deaths. Journalists are the enemy. A single "fake news" writer won't matter.
But that's not the United States. They're a straight monarchy...