If you are going to argue and debate with matters of opinion, you will always lose to someone who uses matters of fact.

In China, they staple plastic leaves to trees to make their cities look green. 🤷🤷🤷 China is 10,000 years ahead of the rest of the world.

The real reason Russia is pushing the Ukraine biolab narrative is more serious than the propaganda suggests. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝘂𝗹𝘀𝗶 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. As the old saying goes, accuse your opponent of what you are doing yourself. Russia claims Ukraine and the United States operated secret biological weapons labs in Ukraine. That claim has not been substantiated. The UN has said it is not aware of any biological weapons programme in Ukraine, and Ukraine has repeatedly denied developing, producing, or stockpiling biological weapons. Ukraine’s facilities are publicly described as public health, disease surveillance, biosafety, biosecurity, and threat-reduction labs. Ukraine says it complies with the Biological Weapons Convention and rejects the claim that these sites were military bioweapons facilities. Russia’s position is the opposite. Russia accuses Ukraine of hidden biological weapons activity while keeping its own military biological infrastructure secretive and largely inaccessible to meaningful international scrutiny. Russia inherited the Soviet biological weapons legacy. The Soviet Union operated one of the largest and most secretive biological weapons programmes in history. After its collapse, serious questions remained about how much of that infrastructure, expertise, and military research culture survived inside Russia. Those concerns remain unresolved. The U.S. State Department has assessed that Russia maintains an offensive biological weapons programme in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. Russia denies this, but its relevant military biological facilities remain closed, opaque, and shielded from independent verification. Ukraine’s labs are discussed as public health and disease surveillance facilities. Russia’s military biological sites are treated as restricted state secrets. Ukraine’s cooperation with the United States was linked to biosafety, biosecurity, and reducing risks from dangerous pathogens inherited from the Soviet period. Russia, by contrast, has a documented Soviet bioweapons legacy, current official compliance concerns, and restricted military facilities that outside observers cannot meaningfully inspect. In 2024, satellite imagery and expert analysis reported major construction and expansion at Sergiev Posad-6, a restricted Russian Ministry of Defence biological research site with a Soviet-era bioweapons history. The reported construction began in May 2022, shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion and during the same period when Moscow intensified its claims about Ukrainian “biolabs.” That timing does not prove the new construction is an offensive biological weapons programme. But it does make Russia’s propaganda campaign look highly suspect. Russia demanded outrage over Ukrainian public health laboratories while expanding or upgrading its own secretive military-linked biological research infrastructure. The strongest factual argument is not that every Russian biological activity is illegal. It is that Russia has no credibility accusing Ukraine of hidden bioweapons activity while refusing transparency over its own military biological facilities. This is classic projection and deflection. Russia turns Ukrainian public health and threat-reduction work into a fake Western bioweapons plot. It shifts attention away from its own closed military biological sites. It muddies the waters around biological weapons compliance. Ukraine denies the allegations, points to peaceful public health work, and says it complies with international obligations. Russia has a Soviet bioweapons legacy, U.S.-assessed BWC violations, secretive military biological facilities, and refuses the transparency it demands from others. So when Russia talks about Ukrainian “biolabs,” the relevant question is why a country with closed military biological sites is trying so hard to redirect attention onto Ukraine’s public health laboratories.

🚨Do not travel to China American academic arrested in China after arriving for a conference. He had been invited by a Chinese institution. So the CCP is becoming more aggressive with its use of arbitrary detention and hostage diplomacy

If you have to pay a man to do good then he is not a good man. A good man does good for the sake of doing it.

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Just watch which politicians and influencers push the Ukrainian biolabs narrative, and there's your Russian shill. It's almost neat how all of them are blowing what little cover they had left by choosing to die on this particular hill.

so.... they're gonna send to space the guy who almost drowned to death in a spacewalk on a mission to test new spacesuits...

The U.S. funded bio labs in Ukraine were for the disposal of Soviet-era biological weapons but the MAGAs are far too stupid to understand that.

I’m seeing lots of Russian soft power propaganda on YouTube. They love to talk about the good but always ignore all the bad.

THREAD | Russian propaganda is circulating a map claiming a new US intelligence document "confirms" American bioweapons labs in Ukraine. The document is real. What it actually says is close to the opposite of the claim. Let me walk through it.

I’d rather be broke than a shill

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🚨UC Rusal, the parent company for Aughinish Alumina has shrunk 22% in the last 6 months. Interestingly their major problems appeared to begin at the opening week of 16 March Coincidentally, or perhaps not, the #Alumina22 campaign commenced monitoring of shipments on 14 March

TLDR on the Ukrainian "biolabs": - Biological research laboratories exist in Ukraine, just as they do in virtually every developed country. They are used for medical research, disease surveillance, veterinary, public health monitoring, and vaccine development. - A biological research lab is not the same thing as a biological weapons program. It is also not necessarily the same thing as a biodefense facility. These terms are often incorrectly used interchangeably. - The existence of these facilities was not a secret. Many were publicly known and listed on the official websites by both Ukrainian and U.S. government agencies - After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and other partners funded programs to help secure dangerous pathogens, improve laboratory safety, and reduce the risk of accidental releases. It wasn’t about charity or weapons development - preventing outbreaks is far cheaper than dealing with the consequences of a leak. - The key claim made by Russians and some internet commentators is not that labs existed, but that they were evidence of a secret U.S.-run biological weapons program. The document released by the DNI has no evidence supporting that claim.

🚨 BREAKING: Governor of the Russian Central Bank Nabiullina is under de-facto house arrest according to former All-Russia State Television Editor-in-chief Dmitry Skorobutov, exiled in Switzerland. In a heated exchange at the end of May / early June, she gave Putin an ultimatum: She will quit and leave the country if Putin starts total mobilization.

Beijing's trap for dual nationals has been officially exposed, and the US government just issued an urgent warning to anyone entering China with Chinese documents. The US Mission to China released a critical advisory reminding travelers that the Chinese Communist Party does not recognize dual nationality. If you are a naturalized US citizen of Chinese origin but cross the border using Chinese-issued papers, you are effectively stripping away your own American safety net. According to the State Department, entering China with Chinese-issued travel permits or national ID cards can completely lock you out of US government assistance. If you face arbitrary detention, sudden exit bans, or forced disappearance, the regime will exploit these documents to treat you solely as a Chinese national. Consequently, US consular services will be blocked from intervening, leaving you entirely at the mercy of the CCP's corrupt legal system. To ensure full American protection against the regime's overreach, naturalized citizens of Chinese origin must formally renounce their Chinese citizenship and completely stop using Chinese documents for convenience. Does this official warning prove that Beijing views the overseas Chinese diaspora not as free global citizens, but as property to be trapped, audited, and controlled whenever the totalitarian regime sees fit? #China #USMission #DualNationality #ExitBan #HumanRights #CCP #Beijing