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Kazakhstan becomes toxic graveyard for US diplomacy ---- As political winds shift, a US-funded biosecurity lab in Almaty could become a major embarrassment for Washington
asiatimes.com ^ | January 12, 2022 | MK Bhadrakumar

Posted on 01/12/2022 7:18:07 PM PST by elpadre

The Kazakh Ministry of Health has issued an innocuous disclaimer, denying social media reports about the seizure of a “military biological lab near Almaty by unidentified people.”

According to Russia’s Tass news agency, social media had speculated that specialists in chemical protection suits were working near the lab as “a leak of dangerous pathogens” occurred.

The carefully worded press release by the Kazakh ministry clarifies: “This is not true. The facility is being protected.” Period.

The intriguing report highlights the tip of an iceberg that has implications for public health and holds serious geopolitical ramifications.

Since the late 1990s, when it came to be known that the US was steadily establishing and building up partnerships in biological research with several ex-Soviet republics, Moscow has repeatedly alleged that such cooperation posed a threat to Russia.

These biological research facilities were originally envisaged as part of the so-called Nunn-Lugar Biological Threat Reduction Program to prevent the proliferation of expertise, materials, equipment and technologies that could contribute to the development of biological weapons.

But Moscow suspected that the exact opposite was happening – that in reality, the Pentagon has been sponsoring, lavishly financing and providing technical assistance to these laboratories where “under the guise of peaceful research, the US is building up its military biological potential.”

In a sensational statement in October 2018, Major-General Igor Kirillov, the commander of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, went to the extent of disclosing a discernible pattern of the network of Pentagon labs being located near the borders of Russia and China.

The US-funded research projects centered on studies invol

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018; 201810; axisofevil; biopreparat; china; ismellbs; russia
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1 posted on 01/12/2022 7:18:07 PM PST by elpadre
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To: elpadre

Let’s Go Brandon!


2 posted on 01/12/2022 7:20:26 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: elpadre

and more”

“...Indeed, Washington has much to worry about because, at the end of the day, Kazakhstan remains unfinished business unless and until a color revolution can bring about regime change and install a pro-West ruler, as in Ukraine. The current turbulence signified an abortive attempt at color revolution, which boomeranged.

Unlike in Afghanistan, the US Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon are not in a position to “evacuate” their collaborators. And the torrential flow of events has shocked the Washington establishment. ...”


3 posted on 01/12/2022 7:20:26 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: elpadre

It’s not a BIG thing. It’s smallpox. /JUST KIDDING!


4 posted on 01/12/2022 7:25:40 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: elpadre

What fish hell is this?


5 posted on 01/12/2022 7:28:16 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: House Atreides

This is serious stuff. Did you ever wonder why the Wuhan labs are funded by the US for biological research, and China also had bio-warfare labs nearby in the same city. And from this article, the CIA and Pentagon have other bio-labs in other countries which we didn’t know. Obviously these labs couldn’t be in the US because of the nature of their business, the US population would not allow it. This is a subject that should generate some serious discussion on FR and elsewhere .


6 posted on 01/12/2022 7:32:10 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: elpadre

It does seem a little like the Nazis putting death camps in Poland — “Hey, it’s not like they were in Germany! That would be wrong! We would never do that! These death camps were way over there in Poland. Who cares what goes on over there?”


7 posted on 01/12/2022 7:39:40 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The experts are liars. The conspiracy theorists are the people who have figured out the Truth.)
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"Since the late 1990s, when it came to be known that the US was steadily establishing and building up partnerships in biological research with several ex-Soviet republics, Moscow has repeatedly alleged that such cooperation posed a threat to Russia."

Its apparent they aren't just a threat to Russia, given the last two years.

8 posted on 01/12/2022 7:39:51 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: elpadre

Putting these labs anywhere but US soil is insane.

L


9 posted on 01/12/2022 7:41:49 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: elpadre

NOTHING is Chomo Joe’s fault. Nothing.


10 posted on 01/12/2022 7:43:22 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: elpadre

I wonder if the Russian troops took some papers, hard drives, etc. back with them?


11 posted on 01/12/2022 7:44:45 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: elpadre

And Hunter’s dirty little fingers are in all these places.


12 posted on 01/12/2022 7:44:53 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: elpadre
The Kazakh elites are notoriously corrupt even by Central Asian standards and have preferred to keep their loot in safe havens in the Western world.

Enter the Biden Family.....

13 posted on 01/12/2022 7:46:28 PM PST by PGR88
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Obviously these labs couldn’t be in the US because of the nature of their business, the US population would not allow it.

the same reason China produces and refines most of the world's rare earth elements now.

14 posted on 01/12/2022 7:48:17 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Flick Lives

Just more propaganda from the Axis of Evil...China,Russia,Iran, etc. Russia had been caught violating the bioweapons treaties when Ken Alibek exposed their programs. Keyword Biopreparat.


15 posted on 01/12/2022 7:48:49 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: elpadre

Or did DOD want some research done in Kazakhstan that was of a type that might get greater Congressional scrutiny if done in the U.S., or that Congress might even oppose if done in the U.S., like the “gain of function” research that was shifted to Wuhan?????


16 posted on 01/12/2022 7:53:56 PM PST by Wuli
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To: piasa

The cold war is over.

The warmongering globalists lost.

Russians are not evil.


17 posted on 01/12/2022 7:59:23 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Organic Panic

He leaves a trail of heroin, cocaine, suitcases of cash and videos all over the planet, while my tax dollars jet his corrupt arse in AF2. We live in bizarro world.

The GOP is as impotent as a wet noodle.

Trust me, if Eric or Donald, Jr. as much as hit a strip joint, the NYT and Maddow would be screeching and writing op-eds for eternity about ethics.

Not a peep about Hunter or Epstein. Zip. Nada. He is one of them. The Dems and Deep State Media are one and the same.


18 posted on 01/12/2022 8:07:46 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Arcadian Empire

Funny you said that, about a year or so ago I realized that Boris Johnson, or Merkel, or Trudeau or whomever we are “allied” with in NATO are expressly NOT what I am ideologically. It seems as if the boogeyman of Russia has a lot more in common with MAGA than the NWO West.


19 posted on 01/12/2022 8:09:29 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: wac3rd

My approach is to foreign policy is very simple:

Russia has beautiful women, therefor Russia should be an ally.


20 posted on 01/12/2022 8:12:15 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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