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In reply to the discussion: Time to face facts: Assange played the left like a fiddle on TPP [View all]pnwmom
(108,959 posts)and assisting Putin.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia-ties
After Assanges brief stint on RT The World Tomorrow only lasted 12 episodes links between Assange and Russia kept cropping up. A few notable examples:
Assange claims to have inspired Snowden to flee to Russia: I thought, and in fact advised Edward Snowden, that he would be safest in Moscow, he told Democracy Now. A WikiLeaks employee, Sarah Harrison, literally flew with Snowden from Hong Kong (where he had been living) to Moscow.
In order to avoid extradition to Sweden, Assange holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. According to the Ecuadorian publication Focus Ecuador, Assange asked for control over the selection of his bodyguards, and insisted that they be Russian.
Assange used the WikiLeaks Twitter account to attack the 2016 Panama Papers leaks, which disclosed a $2 billion overseas account of Vladimir Putins. Assange labeled the leak a US-sponsored plot to undermine Putin and Russia.
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Assanges history shows that he is not an impartial arbiter when it comes to Russia and the United States. He is more than willing to carry water for the Russian state, as evidenced by his stint on RT. In the absence of public evidence supporting them, his denials should be given very little weight he is merely repeating the line set out by his friends in the Kremlin.