this goes all the way back to the days of the soviet union. but this is where the problem lies. back in 2005, then u.s. senators dick lugar and barack obama helped expand a pentagon program which has, in part quote assisted the ukrainian government in converting former soviet biological weapons research facilities to support peaceful and safe biological detection and diagnostic capabilities and reduce the threats posed by dangerous pathogens. so how many of these former soviet weapons labs still exist? one report from 2005 identified more than 80 research facilities scattered throughout russia and other former soviet territories. while the american security project says that nearly 3,000 tons of chemical weapons were destroyed, that are there any of them still left inside
worked to but these are not, again, in all caps, weapons labs, as russians falsely claims. the official said. okay, so no big deal. this is not actually the story. the pentagon has been doing it since 2005, working with ukrainians to eliminate biological weapons left behind by the soviets. that makes sense. but wait, 2005 was 17 years ago. how long does it take to eliminate soviet bio weapons? 17 years seems like a long time. if you had 17 years and ample funding from congress, you could probably remove and catalog every grain of sand on waikiki beach. and yet, somehow come over that same period, 17 years, the pentagon has not finished moving test tubes from soviet era
ambassador to the united nations linda thomas-green field in an emergency meeting of u.n. security council called by russia to raise baseless allegations, lies, that the u.s. is supporting biological weapons labs in ukraine. that theory is debunked over and over again and russia repeats it and beamed into the homes of millions of americans. thanks to fox news most highly rated anchor. tucker carlson. it is just one of the many disinformation riddled and dangerous kremlin talking points coming from what can only now be described as the pro-putin wing of the republican party if they call themselves that. small but noisy group of allies of ex-president trump who seem to oppose u.s. support for ukraine. a democracy. our ally. yesterday eight republicans
there is a direct question but by marco rubio, she replied and said that, in ukraine, there are research structures which should not end up in the hands of the russian armed forces, and of quote. you see would happen here, right? first of all, take a step back, i want to be clear about this. there is no one accusing these have been by weapons labs anywhere except for, like, a few conspiracy theorists, some russian propagandists, and some useful it is starting a week ago. it is just invented a whole cloth, or is no evidence that they, are it s below nothing. now, the russians about the death of the un, is basically parroting the propaganda that fox news is running, which they took the time from whatever corner of qanon internet, we have to go in, they re there by alliance. the bio labs. look, it s transparent, it s brazen. also, to provide a little comes razor here. if russia actually believe this,
i d like to play with you with the sound on, because the russian translator tries to mimic top tucker s performance well speaking. it s quite funny. other than being very funny, it s also deeply concerning. see the banner under there, under secretary of state, ukraine has bio labs. now it carlson is doing in the segment is taking a statement from victoria nuland, the u. s. secretary of state, completely out of context. she s confirming that the u. s. does have biological laboratories in ukraine, like we have all over the world. laps that work like the cdc to monitor diseases and to prevent outbreaks. they are not weapons labs. but look at how far carlson took that from its actual context. here s the clip that i just play for you.