The Kremlin has pushed false claims that the U.S. is working with Ukraine on bioweapons labs, a narrative that QAnon has picked up and further distorted.
More likely the US stupidly put a virology lab stupidly close to the border of a hostile nation for some stupid reason.
The lab has a record of existing, doesn't it? It may date back to an already established research center or something, maybe something started in the Yeltsin era or even something older from the USSR. Otherwise it was probably just the Ukrainian government siting it there for some reason or another (land costs, adapting existing facilities, graft, whatever) and the US only got involved afterwards, maybe just throwing money at them to get the research it produced.
I said this in another thread but I suspect that the US probably doesn't do explicit bioweapon research anymore after nuclear weapons sort of obviated the idea of carrying out genocide with plague bombs like Japan did in China, despite the US acquiring their research and doing live tests of it the Korean war. Instead I'd say they coopt otherwise innocuous research to source more-or-less-natural bioweapons for covert shit like the CIA's attacks on Cuban agriculture (something Cuba had accused them of for decades and which a few years ago declassified documents proved that they did in fact do).
The lab has a record of existing, doesn't it? It may date back to an already established research center or something, maybe something started in the Yeltsin era or even something older from the USSR. Otherwise it was probably just the Ukrainian government siting it there for some reason or another (land costs, adapting existing facilities, graft, whatever) and the US only got involved afterwards, maybe just throwing money at them to get the research it produced.
I said this in another thread but I suspect that the US probably doesn't do explicit bioweapon research anymore after nuclear weapons sort of obviated the idea of carrying out genocide with plague bombs like Japan did in China, despite the US acquiring their research and doing live tests of it the Korean war. Instead I'd say they coopt otherwise innocuous research to source more-or-less-natural bioweapons for covert shit like the CIA's attacks on Cuban agriculture (something Cuba had accused them of for decades and which a few years ago declassified documents proved that they did in fact do).