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>Ich will mich hier eigentlich nicht beteiligen, aber for the record, damit kein falscher Eindruck bei Mitlesern entsteht. Der "übelste Russen-Propaganda-Bullshit" war ein C-Span-Video aus dem US-Senat, das Greenwald getweetet hat.
Greenspan hat dem Video aber genau den falschen Spin verliehen, den die versammelte ultrakonservative US-Prominenz ad nauseum wiedergekäut hat. Inklusive Tucker Carlson, bei dem Greenspan längst Stammgast ist:
Prominent social media users and conservative voices have amplified a baseless theory promoted by Russian state media accusing the United States of funding biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine.
There is no evidence to support the claims, which President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department have all unequivocally denied.
There are biological laboratories inside Ukraine, and since 2005, the United States has provided backing to a number of institutions to prevent the production of biological weapons. But Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, and others have misleadingly cited remarks from American officials as proof that the labs are producing or conducting research on biological weapons.
“Out of nowhere, the Biden official in charge of Ukraine confirmed the story,” Mr. Carlson said on his program Thursday night. “Victoria Nuland, the under secretary of state, casually mentioned in a Senate hearing on Tuesday that actually, yes, the Biden administration does fund a series of biolabs in Ukraine.”
Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, characterized Ms. Nuland’s remarks as a “serious admission.” Donald Trump Jr., the son of the former president, tweeted that her comments propelled the claim from “conspiracy theory to fact.”
Mr. Carlson also pointed to an interview with Robert Pope, the director of the Pentagon’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which helps countries in the former Soviet Union secure or eliminate nuclear and chemical weapons.
“As Pope put it, scientists are scientists, they don’t want to destroy all the bioweapons,” Mr. Carlson continued in his segment. “Instead, they’re using them to conduct new bioweapons research — that’s what he said.”
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For years, Russia has claimed that former Soviet countries were manufacturing biological weapons at laboratories funded by the United States. Experts and journalists have found no evidence for these claims.
Filippa Lentzos, an expert on biological threats at King’s College London, wrote in 2018 that she and other international experts had been given full access to the Lugar Center for Public Health Research, a laboratory in the nation of Georgia that receives funding from the United States.
“Our group observed nothing out of the ordinary, or that we wouldn’t expect to see in a legitimate facility of this sort,” Dr. Lentzos wrote.
Similarly, the crisis reporting outlet Coda Story was shown highly sensitive areas of the lab, including a “pathogen museum,” and reported that Russian journalists had also visited and Russian scientists had previously worked there.
“If this was a secret weapon facility, would we be so open to everyone?” the lab’s director told the publication.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/us/politics/us-bioweapons-ukraine-misinformation.html]
Und eben jener Greenspan verbreitet hierzu im großen Stil verschwörungstheoretischen Bullshit:
[https://twitter.com/ichbinilya/status/1503077582539005953]
>Und das Thema aufgebracht hatte gar nicht ich, sondern Pezking.
Soll ich jetzt schuld daran sein, dass Du hier amerikanische Sprachrohre von russischer Propaganda verlinkst?