This humorous Breitbart piece brought those claims up while trying to convince the reader that ITs beEn DebOnKeD, with all the believability of MSM telling us the 2020 US election was fortified to be the bestest evar.
I originally thought it was nothing but a 4chan LARP, but this lame excuse for a cover-up made me believe it more.
Russia has been spreading wild claims of American biological warfare labs in Ukraine for several years. Those claims were eagerly boosted by Chinese state media, which mixed them with Beijing’s deranged conspiracy theory about the Wuhan coronavirus originating in a U.S. Army lab in Maryland.
On Thursday, the same day Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine, Russian propaganda outlets circulated a map purportedly showing dozens of secret American labs across Ukraine, with 11 of them already targeted and destroyed by Russian missiles.
International media organizations debunked the Russian claims and noted Russia has been running disinformation campaigns accusing the U.S. of manufacturing chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine for years. The Russian tale was fabricated out of an agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine to modernize Ukrainian virology labs, some of which are dedicated to defense against weaponized pathogens.
I have a feeling we are dealing with Russia/China first brigade here, and not America first.
Imagine believing the propaganda the Russians and Chinese sell.
Whether it's true or not is not ultimately the point.
The problem is that it's totally believable. Accusing the US of secretly developing bioweapons should be the equivalent of accusing Mr. Rogers of diddling kids -- a complete joke that nobody would entertain for even a second.
Instead everybody is like, "it sounds Faucian but it's coming from Russian, so who knows". Even if you completely believe it's Russian propaganda, it still highlights the West's lack of credibility and no moral standing because you're dismissing it because it came from Russia not because it's ludicrous.
This humorous Breitbart piece brought those claims up while trying to convince the reader that ITs beEn DebOnKeD, with all the believability of MSM telling us the 2020 US election was fortified to be the bestest evar.
I originally thought it was nothing but a 4chan LARP, but this lame excuse for a cover-up made me believe it more.
I have a feeling we are dealing with Russia/China first brigade here, and not America first.
Imagine believing the propaganda the Russians and Chinese sell.
Whether it's true or not is not ultimately the point.
The problem is that it's totally believable. Accusing the US of secretly developing bioweapons should be the equivalent of accusing Mr. Rogers of diddling kids -- a complete joke that nobody would entertain for even a second.
Instead everybody is like, "it sounds Faucian but it's coming from Russian, so who knows". Even if you completely believe it's Russian propaganda, it still highlights the West's lack of credibility and no moral standing because you're dismissing it because it came from Russia not because it's ludicrous.
Would you believe if America said the same thing about Russia? Would you dismiss it because it came from America or was it because it is ludicrous?
Yes both Russia and America can easily be believed to have secretly created bioweapons.
That's the point actually, we have no moral high ground on this issue and we should.