{"id":109155,"date":"2022-03-11T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=109155"},"modified":"2022-03-11T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:13:20","slug":"the-us-has-336-labs-in-30-countries-under-its-control-including-26-in-ukraine-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=109155","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cThe US has 336 bioweapon labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone.\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has \u201cBiological Research Facilities,\u201d Worried Russia May Seize Them<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>The neocon&#8217;s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Self-anointed \u201cfact-checkers\u201d<\/b> in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory, the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. <b>They never presented any evidence for their ruling<\/b> \u2014 how could they possibly know? and how could they prove the negative? \u2014 but nonetheless they invoked their characteristically authoritative, above-it-all tone of self-assurance and self-arrogated right to decree the truth, definitively labeling such claims false.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Claims that Ukraine currently maintains dangerous biological weapons labs came from Russia as well as China. <u>The Chinese Foreign Ministry this month claimed: \u201cThe US has 336 biolabs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone.\u201d<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry asserted that \u201cRussia obtained documents proving that Ukrainian <u><b>biological laboratories <\/b><b>located near Russian borders<\/b><\/u> worked on development of components of biological weapons.\u201d Such assertions deserve the same level of skepticism as U.S. denials: namely, none of it should be believed to be true or false absent evidence. Yet U.S. fact-checkers dutifully and reflexively sided with the U.S. Government to declare such claims \u201cdisinformation\u201d and to mock them as QAnon conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological-research-facilities-worried-russia-may-seize-them\/5773632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological-research-facilities-worried-russia-may-seize-them\/5773632&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1647107879669000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2riu7YE-rRBPtKkV5nmhjN\">https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/<wbr \/>victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-<wbr \/>biological-research-<wbr \/>facilities-worried-russia-may-<wbr \/>seize-them\/5773632<\/a><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has \u201cBiological Research Facilities,\u201d Worried Russia May Seize Them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}