Comment: So much for Nixon ending the US deep state's mad science bio-weapons program in 1969.

Many years ago, we noted that Israel has a similar infatuation with finding something that would 'target Arabs '.

The Pentagon's bio-weapon Frankenstein-research is not only alive and well, like NATO, it has metastasized since the collapse of the USSR, spreading into Africa, the Middle East, and on Russia's doorstep.

President Putin noted the uptick in US bio-research focused on 'Russians/Caucasians' last October and, addressing Russia's Human Rights Council, said:

"[...] do you know that biological material is being collected all over the country, from different ethnic groups and people living in different geographical regions of the Russian Federation? The question is - why is it being done? It's being done purposefully and professionally. We are a kind of object of great interest."

Franz Klintsevich, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council's Committee for Defense and Security went on to add this on his Facebook page:

"I'm not saying that it is about preparing a biological war against Russia. But its scenarios, are, no doubt, being worked on. That is to say, in case the need arises."

It may, for now, remain more sci-fi than fact, but the concept of ethnic-specific weapons and/or viral means of 'improving the human genome' are clearly uppermost in certain American minds.

What do they think is going to happen if they unleash some kind of bio-weapon pandemic that ostensibly targets 'only Russians'? Or if they accidentally unleash a global pandemic that will hurt Americans too because they were attempting to 'make people more docile'?

It apparently hasn't yet dawned on them that most Caucasians are of mixed descent/genotype. Additionally, attempting to 'improve' the human genome would likely backfire on them.

UPDATE 16 April 2020

See here for a follow-up report in 2018 from the above reporter on this global bio-weapons lab architecture.

See here for the original report during the Covid-19 pandemic that linked Fort Detrick with SARS-CoV-2.

UPDATE 13 March 2022

As Gaytandzhieva aptly states, "what the Pentagon is currently doing is exactly what it did in the past, meaning that its bio-weapons program was never terminated." After Nuland's admission that the US was "concerned" that the Russians may obtain research materials from labs in Ukraine, the MSM went into overdrive alleging that there was 'nothing to see here' apart from Russian disinformation and that it was Putin himself who was planning a chemical or bioweapons attack. The truth is much darker, as the above report shows. Bioweapons research and attacks have been the West's modus operandi for the last 70 years at least! Most relevant to the current situation were numerous mysterious outbreaks of illnesses in countries bordering Russia, such as n Ukraine and Georgia.

Vanessa Beeley reported on 10/03/2022 that four-hundred and fifty extremists have arrived in Ukraine with White Helmets in tow, these are the same groups who have a murky history of "organ trafficking, child abduction, and trafficking, staging of "chemical weapon" events, murder, theft, corruption, and being weapon-carrying members of extremist armed groups". Are we about to see their most theatrical production yet?

See also: Malone on US BIO Weapon Research: Are We the Good Guys or the Bad Guys Here?

Comment: The PM's right hand deputy PM (never before a position) is a whole other kettle of fish:

Trudeau's deputy PM participated in protest featuring pro-Nazi banners and flags

Comment: There's evidence showing that not only was Ukraine planning an offensive against the Donbass in early March, but that it was also planning on making a dirty bomb to use against Russia.

RFE/RL reports on the Russian airstrikes:

Russian Attack On Base Brings War In Ukraine Right To NATO's Doorstep

Smoke rises amid damaged buildings following an attack on the Yavoriv military base in Ukraine on March 13.

A local official said 35 people were killed and 134 wounded in the March 13 attack on the sprawling Yavoriv International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, a training base just 25 kilometers from the Polish border, bringing the conflict to the doorstep of the Western security alliance.

Regional governor Maksym Kozytskiy said Russian planes fired around 30 rockets at the facility, adding that some were intercepted before they hit.

President Joe Biden "has been clear, repeatedly, that the United States will work with our allies to defend every inch of NATO territory and that means every inch," Sullivan said.

An empty threat since Russia has no intention of striking a NATO country, although Russia will respond if attacked by a NATO country.

The attack highlighted the intensification of Russia's assault on Ukraine, with heavy fighting reported in many areas across the country.

Amid the fighting, Ukrainian officials said Russia had agreed to open more than 10 humanitarian corridors on March 13, including from the besieged port city of Mariupol, where the city council said 2,187 people have been killed since the invasion started on February 24.

Note: these humanitarian corridors were Russia's suggestion, and the Ukrainian military in Mariupol were using civilians as a human shield, threatening to shoot any who tried to evacuate: Greek in Mariupol on Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion: 'The fascists won't let us leave the city, they would kill me.'

The International Committee of the Red Cross said on March 13 that hundreds of thousands of Mariupol's residents are "facing extreme or total shortages of basic necessities like food, water and medicine."

"Dead bodies, of civilians and combatants, remain trapped under the rubble or lying in the open where they fell," it said in a statement.

"In the name of humanity, this cannot continue," Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC added in a tweet.

The United Nations said on March 13 that nearly 2.7 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries during the conflict.

The crisis prompted thousands to take to the streets in several cities in Europe, Russia, and even inside Ukraine, where people paraded past Russian soldiers in some cities waving Ukrainian flags and chanting slogans such as "Fascists Go Home!".

"Today is the largest rally in Kherson! In the eyes of the occupiers there is despair, they hide behind balaclavas and look away. Yes, they have weapons, but we are morally stronger," a post on a Twitter account set up for videos from the city to be posted reads.

In Russia, thousands of people gathered and shouted anti-war slogans despite a heavy police presence and threats of arrests from security officials.

Police brutality at lockdown protests across the planet was much worse, and attendance was greater: "This is torture": UN rapporteur condemns criminal police brutality at lockdown protest in the Netherlands

According to OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors arrests during protests, 866 people were arrested as anti-war protests erupted in at least three dozen cities in Russia.

Almost 15,000 people have now been arrested in Russia for protesting against President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine,

It's an incursion, not an invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, meanwhile, again warned Russian forces that they face a fight to the death if they try to occupy the capital, Kyiv, whose residents woke again to the sound of air raid sirens.

"If they decide to carpet bomb and simply erase the history of this region...and destroy all of us, then they will enter Kyiv. If that's their goal, let them come in, but they will have to live on this land by themselves," Zelenskiy said on March 13.

If Russia was going to carpet bomb, they'd have done it already, as NATO and the US were wont to do during their many invasions and occupations; as it is, Russia is clearly doing everything it can to minimise civilian casualties, even to the detriment of its mission.

The president, who has repeatedly appeared on social media from the capital, said some small towns no longer existed in the third week of the Russian attacks.

Despite the intense fighting, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators signaled some progress in talks to resolve the crisis on March 13.

"We will not concede in principle on any positions. Russia now understands this. Russia is already beginning to talk constructively," Ukrainian negotiator and presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said in a video posted online.

Russia said that the talks achieved nothing and that Ukraine instead chose to waste time.

"I think that we will achieve some results literally in a matter of days," he said.

Leonid Slutsky, a Russian negotiator was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency that the talks had made substantial progress.

"According to my personal expectations, this progress may grow in the coming days into a joint position of both delegations, into documents for signing," Slutsky said.

Neither side said what the scope of any agreement might be.

In separate statements, Podolyak and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the talks were scheduled to resume by videoconference on March 14.

Three rounds of talks between the two sides in Belarus had focused mainly on humanitarian issues and led to the limited opening of some corridors for civilians to escape fighting.

UPDATE: As for the foreign legion, these stories should give some idea of what they're up against, and how they're coping (hint: it's not what they were expecting, to put it mildly - this isn't Afghanistan):

Comment: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russian Operations in Ukraine Proceeding as Planned, But Risk of War Contagion Grows

Comment: Does a different approach offer a different outcome? Not if the end run remains the same.

Comment: Russia is a fact-based evaluator achieving consistency and continuity. The West is a running commercial promoting its latest product for public consumption.