"take a position"????????????????
What an odd comment. Recognizing how very much the public has been lied to about sensitive (and potentially serious) issues and questioning trustworthiness at a time when narrative after narrative has been later found to be completely false or made up because people, governments, and news media chose to "take a position" rather than even question validity. Nuland said "quite concerned". Don't you wonder why Russia taking control of these labs would be quite concerning to her or are you comfortable in your "position" - void of any further information?
I hope that you are not still believing the lies that Tucker and Hannity told about the labs.
"In less than two weeks, a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian biolabs has gone from a fringe QAnon Twitter account to becoming a major rallying cry for both Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and the U.S. far-right.
Now, the White House says it may be used by Putin as cover for a bioweapons attack on Ukraine.
The theory that the Russian invasion was a pretext to destroy U.S.-installed biolabs first emerged online in the hours after Putin began airstrikes in Ukraine—although it can be traced back to older
conspiracy claims. Since then, it has been touted or outright endorsed by a roster of Russian disinformation accounts; Russian and Chinese state media; Russian officials, including Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov and United Russia leader Dmitry Medvedev; and noted U.S. far-right figures, including QAnon leader Ron Watkins and former U.S. President Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
Bannon’s
War Room podcast heard from former Trump apparatchik Peter Navarro that health advisor Anthony Fauci was at the center of everything. “Whatever happened in the Ukraine,” Navarro said about those biolabs, “he had to know about it.”
Writer Glenn Greenwald, increasingly aligned with far-right polemicists, spun an imaginary narrative where Rubio was “visibly stunned,” characterizing Nuland’s comments as confirmation of U.S-controlled or created biological weapons in Ukraine.
“The only reason to be ‘quite concerned’ about these ‘biological research facilities’ falling into Russian hands is if they contain sophisticated materials that Russian scientists have not yet developed on their own and which could be used for nefarious purposes,” Greenwald
writes. “Either advanced biological weapons or dual-use ‘research’ that has the potential to be weaponized.”
Greenwald’s theory was quickly endorsed by Fox News host and de facto voice of the American far-right Tucker Carlson. Carlson dismissed the idea that QAnon (“whatever that is,” Carlson said) was responsible for the original theory—despite the theory’s originator being a longtime QAnon follower. Carlson declared Nuland’s testimony
confirmation that “the Russian disinformation they’ve been telling us for days is a lie, and a conspiracy theory, and crazy, and immoral to believe is, in fact, totally and completely true,” he said. “Woah.”
A viral conspiracy theory could be used to justify an attack, the United States says.
foreignpolicy.com
ua.usembassy.gov
truthout.org