more on chemical biological propaganda
Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
Toyin Falola
Ken:
My point: I cannot trust both sides when it comes to this issue. We never knew, many years ago, that Israeli scientists were working in South Africa to develop nuclear bomb.
When it comes to issues such as this, we can never know until years later.
It is recently that we got to know that in resolving the Russian-Cuba partnership, that the US made a secret deal to withdraw its army from Turkey for the Russian submarine to turn back.
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Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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Toyin Falola
Ken:
And I doubt that any public will accept the use of biological/chemical weapons on millions of civilians. If Putin were to try it, his army would over throw him. And Russians can cross to Ukraine to fight in support of Ukraine.
I don’t know his agenda, but you cannot take over a country of 43 million people. Neither can you kill them.
The bad news for Putin is that Russia has to rebuild Ukraine. He has also used his resources to construct a nationalism for Ukraine.
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Femi Kolapo
Important as it is to not give a boost to excuses for warmongering, and as important as it is to recognize the horror of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the issue of biowarfare is of the highest concern to me as an African. African governments, companies, and scientists have demonstrated a heartbreaking incapacity to offer any worthwhile medical response to Covid 19 (nor to Ebola or even malaria) and we have had to be totally dependent on Western, Eastern and UN humanitarian handouts and leftovers.
Whenever rumors of these great powers messing around with pathogens that could wipe out the world get out, we should make a lot of noise and rouse moral indignation among their citizenry. Africa has the least capacity to protect its people from these horrors. We should be mindful therefore of the possibility that these horrible viruses and bacteria have laboratory origins. This has been canvassed by people with credible credentials and however much is the countervailing evidence and claim that these concerns are conspiracy theories, I see no justification for ruling out the possibility. Africa has only been very fortunate that the Covid-19 outbreak did not wreak as much havoc on the continent as it has done in Western Europe, US, Iran or Brazil. Who knows which other deadly pathogen these powers have been working on that may escape their control and plunge us into a new round of horror. Africa may not be that lucky the next time and though this revelation is coming out int he context of powerful propaganda and disinformation and misinformation from all sides, there is an indication that the research in question posed a lot of danger to the world, and especially to Africa that lacks the capacity to respond effectively to such outbreaks as that of the now fading Covid-19.
Perhaps Glenn Greenwald is for or against the US or the Russians; whichever the case may be his analysis of the US spin on their bio lab shenanigans in Ukraine makes a lot of sense.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=r
Femi J. Kolapo | Department of History | www.uoguelph.ca/history
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