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"Trump tasked Pompeo with the decision [yesterday] via a presidential memorandum after signing two separate bills to lift the embargo in December โ legislation that Turkey had unsuccessfully sought to forestall."In 1987, the U.S. embargoed arms sales to Cyprus under the pretext of preventing an arms build-up on the island. However, this was not a problem for Cyprus as Russia became one of the biggest weapon suppliers instead. If the U.S. were trying to have balance on Cyprus, it certainly did not achieve this as the country only became closer with Russia and to this day still have close ties.
"they started this investigation of [Trump's] campaign, and even more concerning actually is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president to sabotage his presidency โ or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency."While Barr did not elaborate on the evidence he's seen, a declassified transcript made public earlier in the week of a wired conversation between former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and a Crossfire Hurricane confidential human source (CHS), when read in tandem with Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse, substantiates Barr's view that it wasn't "just mistakes."


American instructors trained them to carry out sabotage at oil and transport infrastructure, as well as for terrorist acts in the Syrian government-controlled territories.The fighters said they chose to surrender themselves earlier this week in order to return to peaceful life, but as they traveled near the southern border area near Al-Tanf - where the US military keeps a garrison - they were attacked by another US-backed militant group, the self-styled "Revolutionary Commando Army," or Jaish Maghawir al-Thawra. The group has worked under American forces for years to maintain an illegal military presence in southern Syria, at times preventing the Syrian Army and allied militias from advancing on Islamic State positions, even while vowing to fight the infamous terrorist group itself.

Comment: This then is the American counter-claim to China's theory that SARS-CoV-2 came from fiddling with coronaviruses in Fort Detrick. And it's pretty weak.
For starters, the project managers of such a bio-weapon/human genome-tinkering project would never be publishing public papers. And you'd never find their work publicly listed online.
Given the paucity of forensic details for the 'China-did-it' theory, one general question to ask is: who has the means, motive and history of messing around with viruses for use as 'bio-weapons' and/or as a means of 'improving people'?