I’m not going to write an entire paper on the differences between journalists and spies to satisfy an Internet stranger. Organizations like the NYT act completely differently with their sources than Assange did. They release documents only after carefully checking for information that can put people in danger, and they never do something for the sole purpose of harming a country.

We know this law doesn’t apply to journalists because they tried to use it against them during the Cold War and the courts told them it wouldn’t fly. So all this hand wringing over civil rights is just concern trolling to defend someone who made themselves an enemy of the US by working with Russian intelligence agencies to interfere in our elections.

Edit to add - if you really want to claim our civil courts didn’t have jurisdiction we could always have let the military handle it. We certainly wouldn’t be watching him go home right now though.

Did they though? He cultivated a relation with a source in exchange for intelligence.

It does where they’re concerned.

I’ve seen it a few times related to war stuff. Looks like it’s mostly arts coverage though, kind of like Smithsonian magazine or something.

More into here it looks like.

https://pragmatika.media/en/news/rosiiany-povnistiu-zrujnuvaly-khersones-tavrijskyj-v-krymu/

We won’t know until the tell all book is written in ten years.

Only if Chiquita actually failed miserably.

The same county that just tried to have a coup?

Hey NSA/CIA/FBI you guys might want to check that one out…

Israel is not the people. The people can continue to exist under different countries and governments.

They have missiles that cover the Black Sea. We could give them the tomahawk but we’re only just now getting AShM versions back out to our own fleet. The best we could probably do is support their production of Neptune missiles. Which are really actually pretty good. It puts them in a pretty small club as far anti-ship missiles go. Which is probably at least part of why the Russians can’t keep anything afloat in the Black Sea.

The operative measurement is flight distance. Which, with a dogleg to avoid Crimean Anti-Air sites would max out around 680Mi. Neptune flies 621 miles at max range.

They already have the Black Sea covered.

iirc they did build one for Admiral Kuznetsov. It also left that dry dock not that long ago so it’s open now. They’re having trouble funding anything larger than the Adm. Gorshkov class though. Which is about 50 meters shorter. So even if they did decide to throw down a 180M long guided missile cruiser they wouldn’t be able to fund it. In fact they’ve been trying to get something called the Lidar class going and the Russian Navy is just like, “Nyet.”

Yeah I can believe they’re getting 40 vessels in the next year if they include literally everything they’re getting. They certainly aren’t getting 40 corvettes.

The problem is we aren’t in a thread talking about Apple stealing code. We’re in a thread about China doing it. And people in here are like, “that’s illegal! It’s not actually open source!”

Which is why I’m driving this point so hard.

In countries following that legal regime.

No, I’m pointing out that China doesn’t care about your dictionary.

Who let NonCredibleDefense out of their cage? Goddamnit now we need a clean up crew.

Fuck mercenaries. Time for some good old sheep dipping.

That’s number of people in the thousands.

To be fair we knew they sucked. Which is why we were working to get them replaced for the iraq war on an emergency basis.