Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Outgoing US DNI Tulsi Gabbard's release of "evidence of US biolabs" around the world, with Ukraine singled out in her statement, is being widely cited by Russian commentators as proof of Russia's propaganda conspiracy theories on the topic. ⬇️

2/ Many Russian warbloggers and commentators have reported the release. A number have taken the opportunity to highlight how, in their view, Gabbard has vindicated Russia's claims about "Ukrainian biolabs" which were supposedly being used to develop biological weapons.

3/ Among them is Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, whose department has been a key player in promoting those claims. She applauds Gabbard's actions:

4/ "This is all something we and the Russian Ministry of Defence have repeatedly reported, drawing the international community's attention to the dangerous and uncontrolled military biological activities of the United States outside its territory, including in Ukraine."

5/ Sergey Kolyasnikov asks:

"Why did the US create and fund 40 biolaboratories in Ukraine with such pathogens? And not only in Ukraine, by the way.

Surely everyone understands the 'why'?"

6/ Kiril Federov sees vindication for Russia:

"And remember how this was one of the topics at the beginning of the Special Military Operation, when our forces declared these labs a threat? And many laughed. Is it funny now?"

7/ 'BP online' hails the announcement: "This is amazing. Once again, Russian propaganda wasn't lying."

'Denazification UA' also says that Gabbard has confirmed Russia's narrative:

8/ "Once again, what has been criticised for many years and dismissed as a conspiracy theory has been confirmed. But what is the point? It is also unclear why they have suddenly become so candid over the past year."

9/ 'Obsessed with war' is sarcastic, describing the biolabs claim as now proven after being called "'Russian propaganda to justify the war', as the svidomites [pro-Ukrainians] have been saying for so many years."

10/ Warblogger Tatyana Montyan says that the release proves Russia's conspiracy theory that the biolabs were part of a Biden-Ukrainian plot to exterminate Russians with biological weapons:

11/ "As far as I can recall, this is the first statement from U.S. officials that work on enhancing pathogens—or, in other words, creating biological weapons—was being conducted in biolabs in Ukraine.

12/ "It's clear against whom these weapons were intended to be used, and one can only be astonished that the Ukrainian government allowed such research to take place on its territory.

13/ "It's quite clear that if a truly massive epidemic were to break out in Russia, Ukraine would also be affected. So, essentially, we're talking about research into biological weapons, which, if necessary, would also strike Ukraine itself.

14/ "What a kamikaze country this truly is!"

'Mishutki Palych' claims that Gabbard's release means that "what was just yesterday dismissed as "Russian disinformation" is now being calmly discussed by American officials and major Western publications."

15/ He says that Gabbard has undercut all of the US's allies and Russia's own domestic liberals who rejected the Russian goverment's claims:

"The most wonderful thing is how quickly the "truth" changes in the Western information machine."

16/ "Yesterday, they explained to you that there were no biolabs at all. Today, they say: well, yes, there were labs, but they were solely for security reasons, and even that was very bad.

17/ "Tomorrow, they'll say: yes, there were dangerous experiments, but individual officials are to blame.

The classic dialectic of bourgeois propaganda: not the denial of facts as such, but the constant rewriting of the acceptable version of reality...

18/ "Back [in 2022], a resolution to investigate the activities of American biolabs in Ukraine was predictably blocked by the US, Britain, and France, while the domestic liberal public gleefully embraced the Western playbook about "conspiracy theorists" and "Kremlin fakes."

19/ "Many of them then literally delighted in telling the public that no American biolabs existed, and that any talk of them was the preserve of crazy Kremlin bots.

20/ "Now, however, the situation is extremely awkward. Because acknowledging this reality means admitting that for several years they served foreign propaganda and were themselves disseminators of outright disinformation."

21/ "And not acknowledging this means pretending that today's statements by American intelligence and Western media publications simply don't exist." /end

Sources:
🔹 t.me/MariaVladimiro…
🔹 t.me/SergeyKolyasni…
🔹 t.me/warhistoryalco…
🔹 t.me/bponline/167474
🔹 t.me/denazi_UA/1044…
🔹 t.me/voenacher/93674
🔹 t.me/montyan2/15057
🔹 t.me/PAL_PAL/20545