Previous U.S. intelligence assessments dating to 2016 concluded that Russia sought to weaken support for the Democratic Party and boost Donald Trump’s candidacy.
It’s like some Dante’s Inferno invention on behalf of some lemmy.ml user who says hey the US government does some bad shit and so I’m sure we can trust its enemies, how could they be any different or any worse
And then a few months later they are saying yes you were right I still don’t like slavery or aid to Israel but this is objectively INFINITELY worse than the things I had experienced so far
There’s a spectrum of maliciousness for governments. In general, I think trusting any of them to safeguard the rights of actual breathing humans is unwise. That doesn’t mean they’re all the same.
He didn’t choose to go to Russia, he was forced to stay there
Julian Assange though is a different case altogether. He gave Russia intel directly
It’s like some Dante’s Inferno invention on behalf of some lemmy.ml user who says hey the US government does some bad shit and so I’m sure we can trust its enemies, how could they be any different or any worse
And then a few months later they are saying yes you were right I still don’t like slavery or aid to Israel but this is objectively INFINITELY worse than the things I had experienced so far
There’s a spectrum of maliciousness for governments. In general, I think trusting any of them to safeguard the rights of actual breathing humans is unwise. That doesn’t mean they’re all the same.