Young people IMHO have no idea what's going on. In one line:<p>Assange in 2010 revealed and gave clear proof of American war crimes in Iraq <a href="https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Collateral_Murder,_5_Apr_2010" rel="nofollow">https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Collateral_Murder,_5_Apr_2010</a> -
now the US wants him dead.<p>That's how imperialism works. Today is a sad day for all freedom and peace lovers.
Daily mail has a headline that it's based on the promise that he won't be held at one of the supermax prisons. Does not sound very convincing.<p>The us still has Guantanamo and black sites around the world.
I recently came across a recording [0] of Prof. Dr. Jordan Peterson telling his students about Hitler's goals towards the end of the war. His point was that, while Nazi Germany was losing WW2, why would you spend so many resources to find, group up and then systematically kill millions of people? Not just that but those killed could've been used (speaking from Nazi Germany perspective, obviously not my own!) for slave labor instead. Why waste those resources? Thst professor speculated that instead of winning the war or losing and coming to a peaceful end, Hitler's goal was to seed mass mayhem and as much destruction, pain and violence as (in-)humanly possible.
Shortly after I read this article [1] about an American journalist that found out about him being on Obama's Kill List, officially called Disposition Matrix, from one of his sources. His own government was trying to kill him with drones at least five times in a short period of time. No due process. No explanation. Nothing. They just wanted to take him off the board. He went on to sue Obama et al and the judge basically told him "hey, this Kill List is out of judicial control, they can literally kill anyone they want. Oh and if you think those targets on the Kill List are handpicked by senior officials based on clear and rigorous evidence? Nah, it's based on metadata algorithms. This made me think, if the US Government is trying to kill journalists of their own country, are they really trying to "win" the war? To disperse democracy? To improve Middle Eastern people's lives? No, they are trying to create mayhem.<p>[0] <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=jMqQBLZwRIE" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=jMqQBLZwRIE</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...</a>
Props to him for putting up a fight against a gargantuan organization. Very few even think about it.<p>He's probably insane by now and will meet a shitty end in the US, but it's people and sacrifices like these who can change things.<p>Betting on him being paraded in the news as opposed to the literal child rapists who have come to light recently.