Russia & China are spreading conspiracy theories implying that COVID is an American-made virus.

[Yorkie Mom]

Russia and China are spreading conspiracy theories about alleged bio-labs “under U.S. control” along their borders—implying that COVID is an American-made virus.

Link to tweet

Russia, China Team Up to Peddle Insane U.S. COVID Lab Theory
COLD WAR PROBLEMS

Russian and Chinese officials are spreading conspiracy theories about alleged bio-labs “under U.S. control” along their borders—implying that COVID is an American-made virus.

The Cold War could be coming back with a vengeance, and the U.S.’s top adversaries are dusting off some old-school Soviet tactics.

Russian and Chinese government officials have recently teamed up to publicly accuse the U.S. of creating biological weapons near their borders and suggesting that Americans are responsible for creating COVID-19.

Speaking to the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant on Thursday, Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council secretary, said: “I suggest that you pay attention to the fact that biological laboratories under U.S. control are growing by leaps and bounds all over the world. And—by a strange coincidence—mainly near the Russian and Chinese borders.”

Patrushev, who formerly served as director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)—the main successor organization to the Soviet KGB—added that “outbreaks of diseases uncharacteristic of these regions” have been recorded in areas adjacent to these alleged bio-labs. He then openly accused the U.S. of developing biological weapons in those facilities.

Like clockwork, Russian state media echoed and disseminated Patrushev’s accusations against the U.S. But this time, they were accompanied by an official statement from China’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Lijian Zhao, who tweeted: “The US bio-military activities are not transparent, safe or justified. In Ukraine alone, the US has set up 16 bio-labs. Why does the US need so many labs all over the world? What activities are carried out in those labs, including the one in Fort Detrick?”

More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-china-team-up-to-peddle-insane-us-covid-lab-theory

[PortTack]

1. And who did that first??? Who??

[dalton99a]

2. No shit.

[empedocles]

3. Modern diplomacy/warfare. Great that we got rid of traitortrump

[Beastly Boy]

4. I see this as a positive development. The more insane, the better.

Each new ridiculous accusation, no matter where it comes from, increasingly relegates all similar narratives, no matter where they come from, to the realm of The Onion.

And the added bonus is that, in the end, we learn the identities of all the morons who have no sense of humor.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Every country has its tinfoil hat crowd