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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i don't see a smart person stealing state secrets and then taking those to 2, TWO, nations we are not aligned with and then trying to play the human rights card. if he were intelligent he would have gone straight to ecuador, a quick wiki read on assange would reveal that to anyone.
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I think my explanation explains that ;) - You don't steal state secrets from the US and run to Canada. You have to be somewhere where there is an interest in not being handed right back over or somewhere where you have those guarantees. We are not aligned with them politically which is precisely why this is important to them politically and why he has value both as a pawn and the intel he has as well has value to them. Where do you think a Russian agent is going to escape to with sensitive Russian state secrets? Ukraine? Probably he will run straight to the US or somewhere outside of their influence and somewhere where that nation has an interest in using him against his former country for political gain.
At the end of it all, he did what he was motivated to do. Motivated by who? By what? Those are the only questions that matter and most likely will come out when he is formally charged after an investigation is completed. At the end of it all, motivation is usually ego, power, fame/notoriety or money or any combination... and always disguised as some altruistic idea of justice/right and wrong.
BTW... its also insanely naive to think that China/Russia did not take any intel in his possession for analysis.