Within moments of Julian Assange entering a UK courtroom on 11 April 2019, what has been obvious for almost a decade was confirmed: the US government has always intended to extradite and prosecute this publisher for publishing.
At least they can't say we didn't give it a try. There's been a six-year experiment in cultivating the electorate's worst instincts and undercurrents to cover for the government's utter capitulation to economic power.