Supported only by Communist China, Russia claims to have discovered a super-secret Ukrainian bioweapons laboratory.
The Russian military says the laboratory was funded by the Pentagon and involved the research of various diseases such as the plague, anthrax, tularemia, and cholera.
This, of course, is total fiction. There is no evidence for such a laboratory.
This Russia waltz into absurdity isn’t even that creative. It is Russia, not the United States, that conducts systematic bioweapons research into such things as super-plague, for example. Indeed, Russia has had a particular interest in the very same diseases it now claims to have uncovered in Ukraine.
A senior official who formerly led the Soviet Union’s bioweapons program once described how “in the 1980s, the Soviet Union developed antibiotic-resistant strains of plague, anthrax, tularemia, and glanders.” The scientist added he had “personally developed three versions of a Tularemia [-based weapon].”
Russia’s bioweapons record takes context alongside Russia’s continuing weaponization of a significant chemical weapons program. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has deployed nerve agents against its own citizens and innocent citizens in the West.
What is Russia’s only evidence for its claims against Ukraine and the U.S.? Documents that Russia says its soldiers found. That’s it. Documents that were almost certainly printed off by a junior GRU intelligence officer in Moscow.
Fortunately for Moscow, China is standing with Russia. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, “wolf warrior” spokesman Zhao Lijian explained, “I would also like to stress that the biological military activities of the U.S. in Ukraine are merely the tip of the iceberg … Once again we urge the U.S. to give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification.”
Two observations must follow from this statement. First, the helpful delivery of yet more proof of Beijing’s utter hypocrisy in complaining about biosecurity while refusing to allow a credible international investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That Institute may well have been the source of two years of COVID-derived global death and despair. Second, China’s desperation to change the subject from whether it believes Russia’s invasion of European democracy is actually an invasion.
Russia has also found at least one shameless propagandist in the West to support its claims. Namely, the former British parliamentarian George Galloway. A durable prostitute for tyrants, Galloway is now a well-paid Kremlin propagandist. Earning his money, Galloway told the Kremlin’s RT network it’s a “very serious question just how much the U.S. has been using the people of Ukraine, using them as a biological weapons dump, using them as a cat’s paw against the Russian bear. And who knows what else might yet be discovered?”
Who knows?
Only Russia knows. Only Russia can decide what lies to dream up next. Still, at least that cat’s paw reference gives me a chance to introduce you to this Galloway gem from the past.
