i have no fucking clue what to even say about this like this is just absolutely stupefying
this is why i will always make fun of vegans
Chelsea Manning. Committed. Treason. She put American lives at risk. This is a fucking joke.
She exposed war crimes you fuck, including video of the US military killing journalists (some of whom were Americans to follow your point) and civilians including children, showed the awful conditions and tortue of the prisoners in Guantanamo (again including children as young as 13 and journalists), and revealed the civilian deathtoll from Iraq and Afghanistan to be in the 100,000’s
American lives are not inherently more valuable than any other. It is not treason to expose the crimes of your government; blind, obediant patriotism is much more harmful as it allowed the US to put even more of its citizens into a war zone to die.
Even then, none of what she leaked endangered a single troop on the ground as none of the files had anything to do with current military operations.