Posted on 09/12/2022 12:01:01 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Must be refreshing for you to be on the exact same page as Jeremy Corbyn, Britain’s resident “tankie” - pro-Putin, pro-Islamist, anti-Israel commie vegan peacenik. He’s said the exact same stuff.
“Ya like Bioweapons”
I’m no fan of bioweapons, expecially not given the sheer number of leaks of cholera, anthrax and other weaponised biomaterials from *** Russian controlled*** biolabs. Over five decades. Most of which were hushed up.
I have no problem with biolabs in principle, though, because biolabs and bioweaponry are NOT synonymous.
The UK has over 600 biolabs. They have all sorts of nasties. Oddly enough, almost all are used for banal things like researching diseases. In fact, at one point only 8 were registered locations for “bioweapons” research and most of them were looking specifically at detection, diagnostics and treatments NOT at the creation of such substances.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13315/chapter/26
Ukraine has 46 - far fewer than the UK. Maybe we can expect 2 at most to be of the level of bioweapons research. Even then, if even one of those was being used to develop biological weapons to target the nonexistent pure Russian genome, I’ll eat my hat. The Kremlin flew a completely wild, hair-brained theory out with absolutely no evidence to back it up, and people like Tucker Carlson and MTG just lapped it up right away.
The Virology Reference Laboratory in Kyiv held samples of some of the most infectious diseases on the planet, but used them for genetic analysis - there are numerous global initiatives that are doing this and the labs are spread around the world for a bunch of practical reasons, so these activities were no secret to any country that is participating in the work. The Kyiv facility was inspected at least three times a year, both by the WHO and by other international agencies. The hush-hush was not about what those labs were doing, so much as what else was the American military doing there in top secret.
So what did Russia do given that it knew exactly where this highly dangerous, and yet completely secure, demilitarized civilian biolab that might possibly be involved in creating a targeted bioweapon to exterminate Russians (but not Ukrainians) in Kyiv was?
Oh - they tried to bomb the area around it. Which risked a serious compromise of its safety protocols.
For a country that was so terribly fearful of any pathogen leak from a Ukrainian biolab that they felt the need to invade (we know that’s not true at all, they only came up with that causus belli after the Trumptards kept making a big song and dance about biolabs), they seemed remarkably unconcerned about the risk if the building had been hit by their own rockets, and the highly lethal stuff in it had gone airborne.
“whatever the aforementioned scum are for I am instantly against.”
As are we all, despite those that attempt to label some conservatives. BTW, I believe G.Soros is dead.
If you think it has cost the US a large amount of money to support Ukraine, wait until you see the bill for rebuilding the country. It will be more than 10 percent of the total in fraud and waste.
Putin just named a hawk Storm , why would you think he going anywhere ?
I’m expecting Zelensky to drive a tank into Red Square any day now. 😆
The Kherson offensive is over and stopped at the Oskil River.
The largest faction of Russians who oppose the Kremlin’s way of waging this war aren’t pacifists, but nationalists (or downright Communists) who want it to be a lot harsher.
Anyone in the West who thinks that deposing Putin will result in a milder, gentler Russia is deluding themselves.
I don’t think anyone has thought through how ugly defeat is going to be for either side.
Capitulation isn’t likely to be the top of the list of likely outcomes from Russian defeat.
It used to be “only kids say the darndest things”. Not anymore.
Their own country is being dismantled and they are focused on Ukraine.
The most recent story about N, Korea I saw was they they would send 100,000 laborers to rebuild the Donbass and other sites for Russia.
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