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2022-03-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

US bio labs in the Ukraine - Sergey Lavrov said it, so it must be true

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Actually, the US Embassy in the (old, pre-Russian) Kiev said it.
And then tried to bury it by deleting all the .pdfs of the many announcements they'd previously posted at their website

Posted by Cheremble Thomomp9871 2022-03-04 00:41|| 2022-03-04 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 How many of those labs were originally Soviet bio labs? As one of the two superpowers of the Cold War, the Soviet Union pursued biological warfare as thoroughly as it did chemical warfare, nuclear warfare, conventional warfare, guerrilla warfare, propaganda warfare. etc

As I recall, the thinking when the Soviet Union fell was that America would pay the salaries of as many of the scientists and engineers as possible thereafter, so that they would not be tempted to sell their services to terrorist and criminal groups. If the labs are still staffed now, it must have worked.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-04 00:49|| 2022-03-04 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 After all, it wasn’t any of the labs in the Former Soviet Union that possibly accidentally released the Wuhan flu on an unsuspecting world in 2019.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-04 00:52|| 2022-03-04 00:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama launched the Cooperative Threat Reduction when the USSR dissolved, but many former Soviet bio and other WMD experts found themselves poorly paid or not paid at all. Bio and rad materials began finding their way to the underground economy and in some cases to jihadi groups.

The US began working with some of the experts in non-Russian former USSR republics like Georgia, using their expertise to build detection capabilities, at least in theory.

Posted by Alistaire Clunk8424 2022-03-04 08:34|| 2022-03-04 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama? More than a decade too late.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-04 11:40|| 2022-03-04 11:40|| Front Page Top

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