Julian Assange was freed on June 25/26 2024. Now a whole range of potential political dangers open up for the Australian Government of Anthony Albanese - a government that did so much to engineer Assange's release.
While most of the international public are only aware of Wikileaks releasing US helicopter footage in Iraq in 2007 - Wikileaks more significantly released over 10 million classified Western documents. The vast majority of the documents were from US traitors, some from the broader West, but tellingly virtually none were from Russia or China. Wikileaks' political links can be assessed in that light.
Scope for Becoming a Repeat Offender?
Now that Assange is free it will be interesting to see if Wikileaks again becomes a magnet illegally obtaining Western secrets. Wikileaks may well continue to avoid releasing Russian or Chinese secrets. Wikileaks future coverage of Russia's invasion and occupation of Ukraine will be a key test.
The Albanese government will be deeply embarrassed if/when Assange's Wikileaks start breaking Australian law by publicising Australian secrets. Also, as is more likely, Assange's Wikileaks publishes US secrets in future, Albanese will be highly embarrassed and will draw US anger.
How long will Assange remain in Australia? Australia is a parochial, isolated country for such a world famous celebrity as Assange. Will he move to a country more sympathetic to Russia like Hungary or to a neutral country outside of NATO, like Switzerland or Austria?
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