Posted on 03/06/2022 4:42:31 PM PST by Widget Jr
The labs in question are part of a network of facilities linked to the Biological Threat Reduction Program, a US-government-funded effort
A Twitter thread has gone viral after making eyebrow-raising claims that the Russian government is taking down American biolabs in Ukraine under the pretext of the "special military operation" that has pushed the world to the brink of an all-out war.
The claims surfaced shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met recently and issued a joint statement slamming US bioweapons activities. It's worth noting that both Russia and the Soviet Union have a long history of bioweapons-related misinformation. The latest allegations came as Russia launched a terrifying military operation in preparation for a potential invasion of Ukraine.
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However, such claims have been debunked in the past. The labs at issue are reportedly part of a network of facilities linked to the Biological Threat Reduction Program, which is a US government-funded effort dating back to the 1990s aimed at reducing the threat of the former Soviet Union’s weapons of mass destruction programs, including in countries like Ukraine that was once a part of the communist regime. The Soviets had maintained a massive bioweapons program, and part of the role of the US-linked labs is to take custody over leftover supplies, similar to a central reference laboratory in Kazakhstan. According to Matt Field, editor of the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, the major focus of the labs in the network is on disease surveillance and public health.
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I think this goes down as a “we don’t know yet”. One of the Russian government affiliated media said this was the case, but we need proof. No more “Iraqi weapons of mass destruction” stories to believe just because some important person said so.
HOLY MOLY!
We worked with the Wuhan biolab too. and by us I mean Fauchi.
Do you remember seeing IntelSAT pics of truck convoys, carrying WMDs, leaving an Iraqi base, heading for the Bekka Valley? (They were ‘sanitized’ very quickly, and I didn’t save them.) I do, but now I wonder what was in those convoys... just BS?
That was the NIAID under the NIH. Which history will show was less responsible than the DOD, pardon the acronyms.
Yes we did, and funded many millions in bio-toxin research.
All the same neocon crowd which were gung-ho about invading a sovereign country which had not committed any aggressive acts towards USA, are now having a cow when Russia invades a neighbor clamoring to join NATO and stockpile weapons.
Yes I refer to Cuban Missile crisis when US navy blockaded sovereign country of Cuba denying them access to their ports.
The difference is Cuba was 90 miles from US shores. Ukraine is right on border of Russia.
The baseless nature of the conspiracy theory was picked up by such debunkers as Snopes and @PatriotTakes.
Snopes is worthless and PatriotTakes is way wrong on mask effectiveness, that I DO know.
Yes I remember those; nonetheless the US and the UK got egg on their faces from the whole affair.
After the Google search , repeat using GIBIRU.com
After the Google search , repeat using GIBIRU.com
I wouldn’t doubt that there are bio-weapons labs in Ukraine. Bio labs in the US and Canada were working with Wuhan on various killer viruses, so why not Ukraine too?
But Putin isn’t invading China to close down Wuhan, so I’d say thats a pretext and not a reason.
And the US government statments are like solid gold truth.
N FREAKING NOT.
We sure did. But I still believe there were WMDs. Someone got them. Possibly Iran.
How about Crowd Strike’s server headquarters which ran the DNC during the 2016 election, and Hitlery lost? Any chance they are still in the Ukraine which they were then, and during which they detected the emails “hacked” (really a USB thumbdrive).
They outed Seth Rich to DNC, Hilary, and Debbie Wasserman-Shulz. And the DNC refused the FBI access to the servers because they knew CrowdStrike had done so. And the DNC went with... Russian Hackers == a complete lie again!
so the path to liberate secret bio labs is through residential villages over the bodies of old people unable to evacuate? alrighty then.
I remember the convoy video/images. And yes, they were scrubbed. Knowing what I know now, I kind of wonder if there weren't WMD that were OUR creation. My level of trust in all things federal has diminished greatly, from an already low level in the 90s.
Wow, now that’s an angle I never thought of.
GOOD POINT!
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