There's not even a suggestion of a definition of what 'defeat Russia' means. Not in the subject matter, the USA crap, nor in the commentaries. That's the incredibly parlous state we're in.
The use of "crushing sanctions" against Russia and its trading partners will completely destroy the reputation of the United States and the dollar as a reliable partner and tool. While there may be an immediate effect, in the long run, it will lead to the collapse of the American empire. Unfortunately, many other countries will also be affected. As the dying American colossus struggles to survive and solve all its problems, it may even lead to a major war in an attempt to survive and resolve all its issues simultaneously. Everyone will die.
If the United States uses long-range missiles from the territory of former Ukraine against Russia, it will leave Putin with no choice but to destroy the remnants of Ukraine along with the population that he is currently protecting. However, some of the Russian missiles may end up in NATO countries (Poland, the Baltic states, and others), leading to a global war. Everyone will die.
"Keir Starmer, the man who as the UK’s Chief Prosecutor made the decisions to prosecute and imprison and keep in prison Julian Assange"
Clarification: Keir Starmer may well have been a good lawyer, a bad DPP and an atrocious prime minister, but it's hard to tag him for *any* of the things in that quote.
First, he was never "the UK’s Chief Prosecutor". At *some* material times he was the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, an entirely different species of beast. There are no less than three decision-making law officers (Lord Chancellor, Attorney-General, and Solicitor-General) in the hierarchy above the DPP, who doesn't even count as a law officer. In the DPP role he did encourage "victim culture" *policy* decisions (i.e. CPS and police shall uncritically believe alleged victims and down-rate all physical and other evidence, ironically and wildly popular with all mainstream media) that led to countless miscarriages of justice, then and since. But that's my own beef with him and has nothing to do with Assange or the other rubbish of which he is now regularly accused.
Secondly, all Assange's prosecutorial and imprisonment decisions were made by US prosecutors and US Courts under iirc Obama, Trump, and Biden. The UK functionally lacks material sovereignty when it comes to US prosecutions (which was always true) and even extradition (recently true). That started in 2003 as a parliamentary enactment, and in any event long before Starmer's tenure as DPP. See https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/41/data.xht?view=snippet&wrap=true; see Schedule A1 for the current list of nations to which the UK has surrendered sovereignty over prosecutions and extradition (basically members of the UKUS and EU treaties).
There's not even a suggestion of a definition of what 'defeat Russia' means. Not in the subject matter, the USA crap, nor in the commentaries. That's the incredibly parlous state we're in.
The use of "crushing sanctions" against Russia and its trading partners will completely destroy the reputation of the United States and the dollar as a reliable partner and tool. While there may be an immediate effect, in the long run, it will lead to the collapse of the American empire. Unfortunately, many other countries will also be affected. As the dying American colossus struggles to survive and solve all its problems, it may even lead to a major war in an attempt to survive and resolve all its issues simultaneously. Everyone will die.
If the United States uses long-range missiles from the territory of former Ukraine against Russia, it will leave Putin with no choice but to destroy the remnants of Ukraine along with the population that he is currently protecting. However, some of the Russian missiles may end up in NATO countries (Poland, the Baltic states, and others), leading to a global war. Everyone will die.
"Keir Starmer, the man who as the UK’s Chief Prosecutor made the decisions to prosecute and imprison and keep in prison Julian Assange"
Clarification: Keir Starmer may well have been a good lawyer, a bad DPP and an atrocious prime minister, but it's hard to tag him for *any* of the things in that quote.
First, he was never "the UK’s Chief Prosecutor". At *some* material times he was the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, an entirely different species of beast. There are no less than three decision-making law officers (Lord Chancellor, Attorney-General, and Solicitor-General) in the hierarchy above the DPP, who doesn't even count as a law officer. In the DPP role he did encourage "victim culture" *policy* decisions (i.e. CPS and police shall uncritically believe alleged victims and down-rate all physical and other evidence, ironically and wildly popular with all mainstream media) that led to countless miscarriages of justice, then and since. But that's my own beef with him and has nothing to do with Assange or the other rubbish of which he is now regularly accused.
Secondly, all Assange's prosecutorial and imprisonment decisions were made by US prosecutors and US Courts under iirc Obama, Trump, and Biden. The UK functionally lacks material sovereignty when it comes to US prosecutions (which was always true) and even extradition (recently true). That started in 2003 as a parliamentary enactment, and in any event long before Starmer's tenure as DPP. See https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/41/data.xht?view=snippet&wrap=true; see Schedule A1 for the current list of nations to which the UK has surrendered sovereignty over prosecutions and extradition (basically members of the UKUS and EU treaties).