MATT: tak si prejme, at taky nepadnou do rukou rusum. a jinak jsem tedy zil v domeni, ze ty biological laboratories na ukrajine jsou prece fact-checkery a jinymi experty davno vyvraceny jako putinovymi trolly sirena kremelska konspirace, ale zjevne tomu tak neni:
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has "Biological Research Facilities," Worried Russia May Seize Themhttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biologicalWhen asked whether Ukraine possesses “chemical or biological weapons,” Nuland did not deny this: at all. She instead — with palpable pen-twirling discomfort and in halting speech, a glaring contrast to her normally cocky style of speaking in obfuscatory State Department officialese — acknowledged: “uh, Ukraine has, uh, biological research facilities.” Any hope to depict such "facilities” as benign or banal was immediately destroyed by the warning she quickly added: “we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to, uh, gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainiahhhns [sic] on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach” — [interruption by Sen. Rubio]
Nuland's bizarre admission that “Ukraine has biological research facilities” that are dangerous enough to warrant concern that they could fall into Russian hands ironically constituted more decisive evidence of the existence of such programs in Ukraine than what was offered in 2002 and 2003 to corroborate U.S. allegations about Saddam's chemical and biological programs in Iraq. An actual against-interest confession from a top U.S. official under oath is clearly more significant than Colin Powell's holding up some test tube with an unknown substance inside while he pointed to grainy satellite images that nobody could decipher.