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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Biolabs" is a horribly ambiguous term and RW media, QAnon fell for it hook, line, and sinker
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.
QAnons 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 hes 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 Kremlins disinformation, some have seen that hope.
There are US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, that much is true. But they are not building bioweapons. Actually, its 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
Russias 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 Kings 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.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/media/biolab-ukraine-russia-qanon-false-conspiracy-theory/index.html
"They're going in and destroying the biolabs. Take that, cabal!" They cheer as Russians destroy anything to do with medical science, making vaccines and treatments for diseases, anything with blood spinners, making treatments for genetic conditions, veterinary medicine, agricultural science, things as innocuous as having histological slides of mouse tissue cells, etc. Cheering on the intellectual decimation of a country and a culture.
Qbrains are doing propaganda for Russians and they don't even have to give them any rubles for it. Genius, really.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)I follow a former high school classmate on Facebook who is total QAnon. It is usually entertaining, but of late, shes posted some pretty disturbing videos that suggest that children are being trafficked and experimented upon. Yes, Ive alerted Facebook for all the good that will do.
She has all of the Russian media accounts claiming that they have found your bio labs, USA.
Personally, Id chip in for a one way ticket to Mother Russia for these idiots. There is no reasoning with them and they vote.