Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, stands at the precipice of a legal ordeal that has captured global attention. With his final appeal against extradition to the United States concluded, Assange’s fate hangs in the balance, with potentially dire consequences awaiting him on American soil.

On February 20 and 21, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who frustrated the US imperium, its aggrieved national security establishment, and a stable of journalists upset that he had cut their ill-tended lawns, made what has been said to his final appeal to avoid extradition to the United States.

For Assange, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Facing a possible sentence of 175 years stemming from 18 charges, including 17 under the Espionage Act of 1917, the prospect of........

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