Fuck them all rich countries. They got dirty rich exploring the global south and now want them to be condemned to be eternally poor.

The competition is welcome

the 100% tariff enacted recently says otherwise

He was jailed in 2019. Are you telling me he still managed wikileaks from inside a prison in the UK?

He wasn’t in jail. He was in the Ecuadorian embassy. It sounds like you really don’t know the details here.

what? I did acknowledge that:

It was just a conjecture of how Assange might have thought about. I never said that there really is any link between him and Russia. And it was long ago, when he was still hiding inside Ecuador’s embassy, when the hypothetical link between him and Russia was new.

and:

In 2016 he had already spent years hiding inside an embassy. It’s not that hard to conceive that hatred tends to build over time.

Okay, but you said it was short-term. That is not short-term.

It was just a conjecture of how Assange might have thought about. I never said that there really is any link between him and Russia. And it was long ago, when he was still hiding inside Ecuador’s embassy, when the hypothetical link between him and Russia was new.

And as far as I know, Wikileaks is still very easy on Russia. So how long is this favoritism of his going to last?

I doubt he still runs wikileaks. Assange was in jail for years.

Why should that be what Wikileaks is about?

I don’t know and I don’t really care.

In 2016 he had already spent years hiding inside an embassy. It’s not that hard to conceive that hatred tends to build over time.

That really is not an excuse for his relationship with Russia.

The enemy of my enemy is a short-term ally, that might be how he thinks, who knows. I have no side in this fight since I’m not a Assange fanboy and I have nothing but contempt for the USA.

The man has every reason to hate the USA. Helping getting Trump to power would surely be some sweet revenge, since another Trump presidency will be undoubtely be divisive and harmful

Israel has transferred hundreds of Palestinian detainees out of the shadowy detention facility of Sde Teiman

…but they’ll still be illegally detained (and possibly tortured some more) somewhere else

it’s worthwhile to remember that said rich nations only became rich by heavily exploiting the global south

ethnonationalists chauvinists

that’s what usually happens when the wolves “lend” their money to sheep

We, the allies, should just attack russia and split it like Germany back in the day

good luck trying that against a country that has hundreds of nuclear warheads

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Most people aren’t migrating of their own volition but fleeing war and famine. People I’ve seen advocating for “regulations for immigration” would rather have those people dying of hunger or exposure at their borders instead of letting them in.

I’m in the weird position of wanting both - closed borders and a reversal of climate change

then I guess the weird epiteth of “enlightened idiot” fully applies to you

I don’t think war criminals & mass murderers care about civil liberties.

they don’t care about human rights either:

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who is in her 60s, was strip-searched, handcuffed so tightly it caused pain, denied access to food, water and medication for several hours, and held in a cold cell without adequate clothing or blankets.

Right Wing Fascism

“Right wing fascism” is a pleonasm

Afterall, this wars are happening mainly because US cannot live in peace with other countries

Since becoming independent in 1776, the US of A has known only 15 years of peace, they’re definitely the biggest warmongers that ever existed.