Julian Assange's 'yes I want' and his silence on Putin's war

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Julian Assange said "yes, I do" in

and in the presence of just four witnesses.

His second wife,

denounced the plot to "make him invisible at all costs."

But the truth is that

has been "missing in action" since

which has exposed his old links with the Vladimir Putin regime.

"I don't necessarily think Assange was an agent paid by the Russians," warns Australian journalist Chris Zappone, editor of

who has thoroughly investigated his compatriot's international connections.

"But I do think he has been manipulated by the Russians."

Catherine Fitzpatrick, an analyst at

considers however that Assange fits into what can be considered as

"It is not a coincidence that the foreign policy goals of Russia and WikiLeaks are the same," she warns.

"They are aligned because WikiLeaks collaborates with the Russian government."

from the UK

on two

In 2016, during her seven-year confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, she actively participated in the leak of

the 2016 Democratic Party campaign

WikiLeaks denied at the time that the leak came from Russia, while Putin denied interference in the US elections.

Three years earlier, in statements to Democracy Now, Assange himself acknowledged having recommended to former CIA analyst Edward Snowden: "The safest place for you is Moscow."

Since 2010, when WikiLeaks jumped to the forefront with the first leaks of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Julian Assange maintained a close friendship with a mysterious character of Russian origin "embedded" in the newsroom:

His peers feared him for his outspoken anti-Semitic outbursts and his sympathies for dictator

(in 2010 he went so far as to describe Belarus as "the Shangri-La of post-Soviet development).

Shamir even shared classified information from the State Department with the Belarusian state media that could have compromised the identity of dissidents and pro-democracy activists.

WikiLeaks made a public statement disassociating itself from that publication, although Assange reportedly refused to open an internal investigation and remained in close contact with Israel Shamir.

That incident marked in some way the lukewarm relationship that WikiLeaks has had with autocratic leaders.

In 2016, when he was still in the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​Assange himself attacked the leak of the

(which revealed a hidden fortune of 2,000 million dollars of President Putin), claiming that it was an operation sponsored by the United States to harm the Russian president.

An activist holds a banner calling for the release of Julian Assange.DAVID CLIFFEFE

Since the war started, WikiLeaks (now led by the Icelandic Kristinn Hrafnsson) has practically kept

and has in any case recalled an old leak: Putin has been plotting the invasion of Ukraine since 2008 (the year of the military intervention in Georgia) and the American ambassador in Moscow himself, William J. Burns, clearly warned the State Department...

"As far as Ukraine is concerned, it is a nerve-wracking and emotional issue for Russia. There is a fear that NATO accession could split the country in two, generate violence and provoke a civil war, a scenario that Russia would be pushed to intervene militarily".

Under the distant echo of war, dozens of supporters of Julian Assange flocked to the walls of Belmarsh prison on Wednesday to celebrate the 50-year-old Australian activist's wedding to 38-year-old South African lawyer Stella Morris.

Her two sons, Gabriel and Max, conceived during her seven-year confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, also came

in honor of their mother's ancestors.

"I am marrying the love of my life: a wonderful, intelligent and funny man with a deep sense of right and wrong and known throughout the world for his courage as a journalist," said the bride, dressed to the occasion in light gray and with a rose on the neckline, with a suit designed by Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler.

"This beautiful creation is a symbol of our love and a challenge to a cruel situation," said Morris, who could not even count on a wedding photographer and had to rely on a jailer to immortalize the moment.

Richard Assange, the father of the WikiLeaks founder, served as best man at his son's second wedding (with his first wife, Teresa, he had his first child, Daniel, in 1989).

The wedding took place almost coinciding with the third anniversary of Assange's arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy and his preventive detention during the extradition process, which is entering its final stretch after the Supreme Court's decision to deny the

The case now returns to the hands of Judge Vanessa Baraitser (the same one who ruled in the first instance against extradition alleging Assange's weak mental health and risk of suicide).

Baraitser will have to issue a final recommendation, although the last decision will be political and will be in her hands by Secretary of the Interior Priti Patel.

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