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    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      While the U.S. is providing support for Ukraine, the labs are owned and operated by the Ukrainian government

      :debord-tired: the old "hands off" approach . I suppose IBM simply "provided" punch card machines for the nazis to carry out their genocidal pre-holocaust censuses that enabled them to track and round up unwanted demographics.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I love this shit

      The claim: The Pentagon "finally comes clean" and "admits...that there are 46 U.S. military-funded biolabs in Ukraine"

      Politifact: The 46 facilities referenced in the articles and in the government’s fact sheet are owned and operated by Ukraine, and information about the facilities’ existence has been made publicly available by the Pentagon for some time.

      :so-true: "We already knew about the biolabs, so they weren't 'admitting' to it." God I hate Politifact.

    • FactChecker [any]
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      2 years ago

      This is the kind of thing I live for!

      The US funds biolabs in Ukraine

      FALSE: Okay, first off, those biolabs are merely funded by the US, not actually operated directly by the US, so just clearly that first claim is false. Secondly, those biolabs definitely are not in any way weapons programs associated with the US military. The Pentagon said they're not weapons programs. So that claim that in retrospect was not made, is also false. Two for two on falsehoods so far. What else do we have?

      Oh! Check out this Very Offal Fact Sheet that we the Pentagon released in March 2022, shortly after the invasion! It clearly states that the biological laboratories that the US doesn't fund but does fund but doesn't operate directly are for cooperative threat reduction. Another Big Lie right there. No I will not explain.