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Regardless of Glen Greenwald comments it is a matter of common sense: you do not get 'scared', terrified, (Nuland discomposure), the Russians can get material from the labs, if they only content 'defensive', health related stuff. To add insult to injury now there is a change to the story: they were Russian labs: yeah, we did not destroy them after more than 30 years, but support them and finance them.

Sorry 'fact checkers'? if you don't make any sense and make all our USA actions perfect, always right, never anything bad: there's no perfection in this world, you're showing your real 'colors'.

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Frankly, the observations of Nuland's discomfiture strike me as a tad exaggerated. She was uncomfortable, but the notion that she came unglued and made a careless admission just doesn't match what I saw in the video of her answering Rubio's question.

But you have hit on the larger issue: the network of labs originated with Soviet Russia, and the Biological Threat Reduction Program has sustained and even enlarged them--AND THAT IS THE STATED PURPOSE OF THE ENTIRE PROGRAM.

The labs went from studying dangerous pathogens under Soviet auspices to doing pretty much the same thing under American auspices. And it's not a secret. The Nunn Lugar legislation authorizing this is public record. The funding is public record. The studies of tularemia, yersinia pestis, and other dangerous pathogens are a matter of public record, and not just in Ukraine, but throughout the world (including Russia). Some of the research is classified, but the substance of the overall program is not.

The rationale for this is that it's "peaceful" and "defensive". The same logic is used to rationalize gain of function research in Wuhan.

What's scandalous about the Ukrainian biolabs is not that they're a "secret", but that they are not. The entire BTRP has been acknowledged publicly since inception.

Like Fauci, the DoD and State Department see nothing wrong with this kind of "research".

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