Do people genuinely not understand the difference between "biological labs" and "biological weapons labs"?
Remember when the US claimed that food safety testing vans in Iraq were "mobile bioweapon labs" in the lead up to the 2003 US invasion?
This is exactly like that.
We know that at various points in the past, the US, the UK and the USSR had active bioweapons programs.
Each program had a small number of highly secure sites within their own territory - Fort Deitrich in the US, Porton Down in the UK, Komsomolskiy Island in the USSR.
Why would you build 36 separate facilities in another country?
In total, the US supports over 300 biological labs in different countries. This is an insane and ludicrously excessive number of bioweapon facilities and yet some people are claiming these are all bioweapons facilities.
For starters, if you're dealing with really dangerous human pathogens you need a Level 4 biolab, meaning you have , in effect, airlocks on the entrances to the labs; pressurized suits similar to space suits for staff and systems to flood the lab with stuff like hydrofluronic acid or to rapidly heat it to like 2,000 Degrees C.
If you don't have these sort of precautions, there's a good chance your researchers will all die and so will thousands or millions of others.
This stuff is EXPENSIVE - as in hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. As in China has only one Level 4 biolab.
So you really think the US has built 300?

Here's what was actually happening: as well as an offensive biological weapons program the USSR had a massive civil defense program aimed at countering any foreign biological weapon attack. This involved a network of sites dedicated to identifying biological agents and developing vaccines and other treatments.

After the fall of the USSR, the US funding the conversion of these facilities to nonmilitary uses liking tracking dangerous animal diseases like bird flu and African Swine Flu.

They didn't just do this in Ukraine. They did this in multiple ex-Soviet states - including Russia itself.

These sites were all reported to and monitored by the WHO and the UN disarmament agency. As part of that monitoring, multinational teams of experts which included Russian and Chinese scientists visited them regularly.


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