DISINFO: Pentagon report on biological threats is an excuse for offensive biolabs
SUMMARY
The Pentagon report claiming the US faces biological threats from its adversaries is an attempt to provide an excuse for developing strategic biolabs for offensive purposes in countries encircling Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Those biolabs develop biological weapons aiming to genetic vulnerabilities and specific DNA from people of Slavic, Asian and Persian-Hindu ascendance. The Pentagon report is a reaction to the recent revelations made by Russia’s Ministry of Defence on US violations of international law in the field of biological weapons.
RESPONSE
The claim is an attempt to advance the long-discredited pro-Kremlin narrative about US-funded biolabs with military purposes around the world, which has been debunked over and over again but pro-Kremlin outlets and Russian authorities continue promoting.
In this case, this disinformation story tries to exploit the publication of the Pentagon biodefense review in August 2023 to sustain this years-long disinformation campaign, as baseless claims about the presence of US military biolaboratories in Ukraine have been used as a justification for Russia’s brutal invasion of its neighbour “on defensive grounds” despite repeated debunking by multiple experts, including by the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu and by Russian biologists who examined Moscow’s “proofs”.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that US-developed mosquitoes will infect Russian military with dangerous diseases, that an increase in atypical infections in the EU may be a sign of US military activity, that the US has biological military activity in dozens of countries, or that the transfer of US biolabs from Ukraine to Kazakhstan threatens the entire region.
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