Julian Assange's release is not a "win". Quite the opposite.

Beware anyone who's claiming some form of victory for anyone other than the state.

Julian Assange's release from jail and apparent cessation of US/UK legal proceedings against him via means of a plea deal should be viewed not as a win but as an extremely sad event.

His “freedom” should be celebrated and comes as a relief. The persecution of the greatest journalist in history has seemingly superficially abated for the time being.

It is not a win for anyone but the state powers of the USA, UK, Sweden and EU. Australia abandoned him. Assange has been persecuted by not just them, but also ALL of the media and he was largely abandoned by the majority of humanity. Go back and look at the historical reporting record and you'll see complicity in silence or in inadequate, misleading and biased reporting that failed utterly to tell the truth about what was happening to him, from the false rape accusations to the illegality of the US case, and the crimes committed against him by the UK and US along the way including covert spying and conspiracy to commit murder, which included Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State. The state has wielded unalloyed power over a man and possibly actively reduced his lifespan, especially if it forced him to be dosed with Covid gene therapies while in UK prison.

Assange has been punished by grossly corrupt processes, exactly as the states involved intended for him to be. He has been in forms of imprisonment for 15 years while only a handful of people truly supported him. Those who've popped up in the last few years to bang a drum that should have been beaten over ten years ago are probably mostly fake.

Any media outlet who wasn't on board from the beginning should be treated with contempt because the issues at the start are the same as they are today. The stakes never changed. Assange's life went hand in hand with freedom of the press, and while he has barely clung on to his life, the press freedom issue has been struck the critical blow. No one's stopped it.

If Assange has been forced to plead guilty to a (false) charge of mishandling national security information (or similar) and is released on the grounds of time served, then the state has won. It has used Assange to demonstrate its unbridled power over citizens and the press. It has been able to falsely capture and imprison a journalist/publisher, torture him, attempt to assassinate him, spy on him, destroy his health and fabricate charges without jurisdiction. No one effectively opposed that power. The state stopped because it chose to. Now, any publisher or journalist can be subjected to the charges Assange has plead guilty to, should they publish information from a whistleblower. Therefore, the silencing of the media via Assange has been achieved. The only way this could have been a win is for Assange to have beaten the charges completely and walked free.

The state has won because it has shown everyone that it can do what it wants and no one can stop it until it chooses to stop for whatever reason.

Beware anyone who fails to factor this into their opinion/analysis.

Ultimately, only Julian Assange will be able to render a fitting judgement on these circumstances, if his plea deal has even enabled him to speak freely.

Only time will tell.

Meanwhile, expect even less whistleblowers in future.

Why? Because humanity proves it doesn't deserve them by failing the greatest and truest whistleblowing journalist it's ever known.

Hopefully Assange will return to technological applications in pursuit of truth to evolve Wikileaks and create a decentralised hybrid of it and social media that effectively bypasses the false legal constructs the USA used against him, while showing the world what social media and those who run it actually are (especially Elon Musk). There's a huge scope for the blending of LLMs, blockchain, and distributed publishing to take Wikileaks to the next level. But we aren't holding our breath.

Based on what we've initially seen, Glenn Greenwald is likely in the right place, as one would expect. Consortium News and Craig Murray have always been reliable, consistent and true.

Most others are worthless because they are all complicit with the state, as provable by their historical publication record.

https://rumble.com/v53jvwg-julian-assange-is-a-free-man.html

God speed, Julian, family and his true friends.