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Russian propaganda on Ukraine's non-existent 'biolabs' boosted by U.S. far right

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Non-existent? That's not what Victoria Nuland said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRpntmUIxs

As reported by Global Times:

  "Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland previously said at a hearing in Congress that the US has "biological research facilities" in Ukraine and she said "we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops… may be seeking to gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."

..but that's obviously just propaganda.

If it's just harmless research material, why should they be worried about it falling into Russian hands ?

Saw this in a YT comment:

Ukraine has 26 of these biolabs, all of them funded by the Pentagon. Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe, and isn't exactly a hotbed for scientific research, so you've got to wonder why there are so many of these supposedly harmless biolabs.

"U.S. to Aid Ukraine in Countering Bioweapons"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/08/30/u...

>The United States and Ukraine agreed yesterday to work jointly to prevent the spread of biological weapons, signing a pact that clears the way for Ukraine's government to receive U.S. aid to improve security at facilities where dangerous microbes are kept.

>The agreement, the result of more than a year of negotiations, was announced by Sens. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during a visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The senators credited Ukraine's reformist leaders, ushered into power by last fall's Orange Revolution, with breaking bureaucratic resistance to the pact.

"Pyrra Technologies, a cybersecurity and threat intelligence company, said the first mention of biolabs came on the far-right social network Gab on Feb. 14, 10 days before the invasion. The user included an awkwardly worded graphic, titled “Exclusive US biolabs in Ukraine, and they are financed at the expense of the US Department of Defense.”

The post largely sat idle for days. Welton Chang, the CEO of Pyrra, said posts about biolabs on the top 15 far-right social networks numbered in the single digits in the days before Russia’s invasion. But on Feb. 24, the day Russia began its invasion, the number of posts about biolabs on English-language far-right websites skyrocketed into the hundreds and only grew in the days after."

I find it very curious that the party that venerates St. Ronnie goes against his main tenet.

Have you not been watching them run the crazy train right off the rails over the last decade?

No, I watched it as it's sorta big news in Canada. It's just that the contradictions are curious and how nobody is bothered by them.

Amazing how everything on the Right is "far" right isn't it? And so often connected to Russian perfidy somehow, the last decade or more. Almost as if the propaganda comes from elsewhere...

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