Don’t paint this as some outlandish conspiracy theory.
Even the State Department admits that there are “biological research facilities” in Ukraine that they say they are worried about Russia gaining access to and using it for biological attacks.
Consider how Americans might feel if Russia was funding such “biological research facilities” in Mexico or Canada.
This is an intentional misstatement of something that was boring international cooperation crap before Russia needed reasons to generate outrage at Ukraine and US for.
Ex-Soviet Bioweapons Labs Are Fighting COVID-19. Moscow Doesn’t Like It.
One of the greatest achievements of U.S. foreign policy has been targeted by a vicious disinformation campaign.
carnegieendowment.org
How Russia Sowed A Conspiracy Theory About U.S. Bioweapons In Ukraine
Russia’s conspiratorial claims about U.S.-run biological weapon facilities in Ukraine were swiftly denied by the U.S. and Ukraine—but have been endorsed by China.
www.forbes.com
It was happening, public and known (at least to those who don't consider this stuff boring trivia of US international aid/soft power programs) since 1991.In 1991, the U.S.’s Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program converted former Soviet bioweapons labs in Ukraine and elsewhere into U.S.-funded facilities to decommission weapons of mass destruction that might otherwise have been up for grabs following the dissolution of the Soviet Union—though the Russian Federation has, since at least 2017, promoted conspiracy theories that these labs are secret U.S. bioweapons factories.
But for not so mysterious reasons Russia has started to be angry about it and make nasty accusations over their "real" purpose only in last few years.
Why wasn't Putin talking about this stuff to Bush in 2007? Why not to Obama and Clinton during their reset? Russia has only started this kind of talk during the supposedly totally compromised Trump's term, and ramped it up as need be, conveniently tracking with their military activities against nearby countries they were "regime changing" at the time.
Long story short, Putin is clumsily copying Dubya's shitty homework. Very shameful.
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