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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnalysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine
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Donie O'Sullivan
@donie
I took a look at how Russias Ukrainian bio lab conspiracy theory harkens back to myths the Soviets promoted during the Cold War.
Useful idiots abound in the US now thanks to QAnon.
cnn.com
Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine
A new conspiracy theory has become popular among some of the online communities that formed around QAnon -- one simultaneously being promoted by the Kremlin as a justification for its invasion of...
6:01 PM · Mar 9, 2022
Donie O'Sullivan
@donie
I took a look at how Russias Ukrainian bio lab conspiracy theory harkens back to myths the Soviets promoted during the Cold War.
Useful idiots abound in the US now thanks to QAnon.
cnn.com
Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine
A new conspiracy theory has become popular among some of the online communities that formed around QAnon -- one simultaneously being promoted by the Kremlin as a justification for its invasion of...
6:01 PM · Mar 9, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/media/biolab-ukraine-russia-qanon-false-conspiracy-theory/index.html
New York (CNN Business)A new conspiracy theory has become popular among some of the online communities that formed around QAnon -- one simultaneously being promoted by the Kremlin as a justification for its invasion of Ukraine. The false claim: the United States is developing bioweapons in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin has stepped in to save the day and destroy the weapons.
QAnon's core prophecy has always been that there is a "plan" and that former President Donald Trump will rid the world of an evil cabal, culminating in the unmasking, imprisonment or even execution of cabal members. But that prophecy dates back to when Trump was actually president -- now that he's not, believers have been convincing themselves there is evidence that the plan is still very much in place, maybe even more so than ever before. In the Kremlin's disinformation, some have seen that hope.
There are US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, that much is true. But they are not building bioweapons. Actually, it's the opposite: Part of the reason for their creation was to secure old Soviet weapons left behind in the former Soviet republics. The State Department has described the claims as nonsense -- and the US and Ukrainian governments have repeatedly, and for years now, tried to bat down conspiracy theories about the labs and spoken about the work that is actually being done in them
Russia's falsehoods about labs like this have not been limited to Ukraine. Similar claims were made about a lab in Tbilisi, Georgia; those were proven false. Dr. Filippa Lentzos, co-director of the Centre for Science & Security Studies at King's College London, visited the lab along with other experts and debunked the Russian claims. She told CNN the Russians are spreading the same lies about labs in Ukraine.
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Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
They love the de-nazi story. They think libs are nazis and themselves are fighting nazis for freedom
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2022
#6
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)1. Of course
FRom the FReak site:
Putin knows exactly what hes doing, attacking the Global Deep State
operations out of Ukraine: Ukraine has:
Software records from election - they made the voting software
Pedo and Sex Trafficking data
Hillary Clinton Records going back 25 years
11 Bioweapons labs run by U.S. The next variant was to come out of Russia.
7 of those labs were the first targets hit Thursday.
36 posted on 2022-02-26, by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
operations out of Ukraine: Ukraine has:
Software records from election - they made the voting software
Pedo and Sex Trafficking data
Hillary Clinton Records going back 25 years
11 Bioweapons labs run by U.S. The next variant was to come out of Russia.
7 of those labs were the first targets hit Thursday.
36 posted on 2022-02-26, by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
Nevilledog
(50,687 posts)2. These people are so warped & dangerous
How you can be such a moron that you would believe this shit is unfathomable to me.
Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)3. Qanon had to go with the bio lab story ...
because they couldnt very well support the de-nazification story.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)6. They love the de-nazi story. They think libs are nazis and themselves are fighting nazis for freedom
Do you realize that Ukraine is run by Neo-Nazis? Zelenskyy is a figurehead.
61 posted on 2022-03-02 by Extremely Extreme Extremist
61 posted on 2022-03-02 by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Zelensky is causing his people, men, women, and children, to die for a
lost cause, and hes trying to bring down the entire world with
him. If theres a Hitler in this, its this guy.
4 posted on 2022-03-03 by Dogbert41 (Hungering and
thirsting for Righteousness...)
lost cause, and hes trying to bring down the entire world with
him. If theres a Hitler in this, its this guy.
4 posted on 2022-03-03 by Dogbert41 (Hungering and
thirsting for Righteousness...)
Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)4. All orchestrated by JFK, Jr.
Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
Sneederbunk This message was self-deleted by its author.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)7. Q is probably Russian. Or Michael Flynn, who works for Russia anyway