“There haven't been any costs for the US. Lots of costs for Europe - blowback from sanctions and everything. But for the US, not so much cost really,” Sleboda clarified on Sputnik’s Fault Lines program.

“The Kiev regime feels the same way,” Sleboda claimed, to the surprise of the program’s hosts.

“This has been a war – a declared war – by the United States of America on Russia… Ukraine has been a pawn,” said the documentarian on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program.

“Will Russia respond? Yes, certainly it will respond, but not in a way that will trigger World War Three,” said the filmmaker. “President Putin has made it very clear that he is not going to do anything that would inadvertently trigger a nuclear war between the United States and Russia.”

“Forcing him to plead to a felony when he did not commit a crime… doesn't set a positive legal precedent that we need, which is that journalists, publishers, publish classified material all the time and that the Espionage Act should not apply to them,” said Flowers.

“Assange was tortured. His health has deteriorated. He has lost all of these years of his life, years of life with his children and his wife, and… he should also be compensated for what has been done to him. So justice has definitely not been served in this,” the activist highlighted.

“Of course [US President Joe] Biden has done nothing about the Iran agreement, which he promised that he would reinstate… during his campaign,” Flowers noted. “It was under the Obama administration that the US started this trillion-dollar program to upgrade the nuclear weapons. And there's actually a mindset in Washington, DC, that we could launch 'limited nuclear strikes' or tactical nuclear strikes. This is madness. If we began a nuclear war, it's going to be devastating for the world.”