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by icelancer 4015 days ago
>This is a joke, right? Assange himself admitted to telling Snowden to flee to Russia in particular, not just as a waypoint to Havana...

How does this mean WikiLeaks/Assange is allied with Russia? It seems to me that it is equally (or more) plausible that Russia is powerful enough to stonewall extradition requests for American citizens in this pseudo cold war of information, and Assange may have banked on that (smaller countries may have the desire but not the political power to make it happen).

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The entire Cold War thing is quite funny. Also hilarious that documents discussing Saudi support for ISIS are considered anti-American, by some....
Because the Wikileaks party validated two allies of Russia that were being accused of war crimes. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/14/wikilea...
Saudi Arabia drove down the price of the Ruble.This is the punishment.