Lies And World Travel, vol 2

TruthsWithNoTravelling

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In volume one of this story we noted that, by mid-March of this year the mainstream media was having a little difficulty figuring out why, exactly, it was continuing to cover the Ukranian Bioweapons Lab story when they knew it was not true.

So.

How, exactly, did the story even start?

Well...

The Anti-Defamation League has determined the identity, and the QAnon connections, of a former restaurant manager and Army National Guard veteran who, using the handle @WarClandestine began tweeting things like the following on February 24th, the day that Russia began its war of aggression against Ukraine:

This person went so far as to posit that destroying US-funded biological weapons labs was Mr. Putin's real motivation for bombarding places like, say, Kiev:

The Twitter account concerned was soon suspended and by the next day, February 25th, groups like Politifact had investigated and thoroughly debunked the claims:

...There are no U.S.-run biolabs in Ukraine. The country is one of many former Soviet Union republics, and other countries, partnering with the Defense Department as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program...

And what, exactly, is the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program?

...The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program began after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to reduce the threat of existing weapons of mass destruction. It is also known as the Nunn-Lugar Program (named after the senators who passed the Soviet Threat Reduction Act) and is housed within the Defense Department’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation...

And how, precisely, has the program been used in Ukraine?

...(T)he U.S. Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program has provided technical support to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health since 2005 to improve public health laboratories, whose mission is analogous to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Given all that, you may be wondering how the lie managed to out-race the truth around the world in the interim.

That's something we'll get to in the next installment of the story...

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