Posted on 02/13/2020 11:08:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As the Coronavirus outbreak continues to roil China with no end in sight, media outlets around the world have indulged in varying degrees of speculation concerning its origins. That speculation has taken a geopolitical turn in Russia, where an increasing number of political commentators have to come to believe that the virus is a U.S. bioweapon ultimately directed at Russia.
First, a disclaimer. The Kremlin—up to and including Russian president Vladimir Putin—itself has shown a remarkable degree of judiciousness since the Coronavirus outbreak, limiting its official statements to expressions of sympathy and offers of aid to the Chinese government.
Nevertheless, certain Russian media commentators don’t share the Kremlin’s sense of restraint. Zvezda, a news outlet funded by Russian Defense Ministry, published an article last month titled “Coronavirus: American biological warfare against Russia and China.”
The author begins by establishing alleged intent: the virus dealt a blow to the Chinese economy, which weakens Beijing’s negotiating hand in the next round of trade talks to follow the recent signing of the phase one deal between Washington and Beijing.
Zvezda proceeds to the core argument, which centers around long-standing Russian suspicions over the presence of U.S. biological research laboratories across Eurasia: “As is well-known, the USA ratified the Geneva convention on Biological Weapons back in 1975. But the biological games across the ocean have never stopped, and not only in local territory. Right after the Soviet collapse, the presence of American bio-laboratories has so far been confirmed in Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan. Where else—only the State Department knows, though it insists that these are harmless groups tasked with developing medical devices. But if they are so harmless, then why did the Americans build them, not at home, but across the world?” The author further infers supposedly malign intent of these laboratories
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Perhaps the leading proponent of the U.S. laboratory theory is politician Igor Nekulin, who has been making the rounds on Russian television and news media to pose arguments similar to those raised in the aforementioned Zvezda article.
Nikulin believes that Wuhan was chosen for the attack because the local presence of the Wuhan Institute of Virology offers the Pentagon and CIA a convenient cover story about bio-experiments gone awry. Also according to Nikulin, the supposedly Pentagon-funded U.S. laboratories in Eurasia have been collecting and treating genetic material from Russian and Chinese populations to allegedly create an “ethnically specific” virus that only targets certain peoples.
Russian military expert Viktor Baranets agrees, adding that biological warfare has become a new weapon “in the American fight for global supremacy against its main adversaries.”
We have our kooks, they have theirs. Most people are wise enough to ignore the kooks on all sides.
That’s nothing comparing to the fact that 50% of Americans believe Russia installed Trump for POTUS.
Another post from this rag
Is Bernie Sanders a National Security Realist?
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/bernie-sanders-national-security-realist-122691
Nuff said
No thanks
Naw. Anything we would use would include brain-eating Zombies.
Probably memory of the PRC propaganda from Korean War days that we used germ warfare in Korea.
Maybe this has something to do with it... Check it out...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
Coronavirus is very definitely a Chinese phenomenon, and if it were fashioned as a bioweapon, would it not first show up in China? For all the “openness” of commerce in China, there are still many facets of daily life there that are very much closed to outsiders, and biological experimentation, especially in connection with weaponization of such biological agents, is a major case in point.
That Russian “specialist” is talking with his eating mouth, because if he were talking with his rectal orifice, he would be making much more sense.
with a 2% kill rate it is not a very good one.
I don’t think it makes sense to clutch pearls over tabloid journalism.
Putin’s news media is spreading this crap. And of course approved by the Putin puffers here.
Some in Russia also thought that drowning themselves in vodka would protect them from radiation poisoning.
Check under your bed. He is hiding there.
This is a spectacularly dishonest and stupid piece.
The news program in question was linked previously.
It had CONSPIRACY THEORY in huge letters plastered on the screen to intro the story. The news commentary said it was a conspiracy theory, and the commentator himself said he would think it is BS.
In an earlier segment of the show, they ridiculed pelosi for her trump bashing.
Somehow none of these facts are even mentioned at all in this piece. Stop and think what kind of journalism you are reading, and ask yourself what kind of integrity this journalist has. What kind of process did the editor of this publication do to vet this piece...
They are anti-American Democrats er Communist that hate anything American.
It is a statement probably written by Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff and was just assumed that it was written by a Russian
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Do you keep Putin’s photo under your pillow?
It is under your bed!
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