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I see Dredd as a guy who is making light of troubling info in troubling times. I see that he has become annoying to some people here, but that doesn't bug me.
Yes there was major political and social pressure on the public to accept the Iraq War, and there was a lot of public resistance to it as well. It's going to become the textbook example of US "misadventure" and propaganda and we are doing okay at learning those lessons. Even some of the most die-hard Trumpbots and other right wing aggro types are careful about throwing support behind US action in the Middle East now. I suppose that isn't said enough- we have all improved there I think.
On this issue though, with Wikileaks, we should default to a position that they are working for Russian interests. The last couple of years have made that clear. To that end, we should also question whether stories like this, that seemingly go against the administration, are genuine or designed to sow discord in the political left.
I've been predicting an attack on the American left by Russia similar to their attack against the right, because their troll farms have been caught promoting both sides of political conflicts.
fair enough. you seem approach this rationale. My take is that Wikileaks is not a Russian asset or controlled by Russia but wikileaks like globalresearch and many other alternative or non western sources is often overly biased against the west and not or silent critical of the eastern sphere. To why this is could be number of reasons maybe wikileaks however it works and people at top want more multipolar world and feel that undermine west helps that. And yes i realize on the flip side many western media is biased against eastern non west world, however i also realize there is not a wikileaks type thing against eastern sphere yet.