> a big chunk of his “years of torment” were a legal tactic on his part
One man (and a bunch of supporters) against several governments with limitless resources. If something didn't stick, there would be another. Let's not judge his legal tactics looking back.
How does him being one man and his opponent being at least a ("several"???) government change the fact that the seven years he spent in the Ecuadorian embassy were by his own choice?
That half of his “years of torment” were a legal tactic on his part.
One man (and a bunch of supporters) against several governments with limitless resources. If something didn't stick, there would be another. Let's not judge his legal tactics looking back.