Yesterday, just two days after the announcement by President Vladimir Putin that the United States was collecting samples of Russian biomaterials and indistinct American justifications that this was being done “for scientific purposes,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov bluntly stated that “a number of states disguised biological weapons for natural outbreaks of infectious diseases among people, animals or plants “and that our country needs to be ready to repel the threat
Mr. Ryabkov made his statement at an international conference on biosafety.
According to the Deputy Minister, “At the moment there is no objective data on compliance with the provisions of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC). This creates a situation of uncertainty and raises questions about the real state of things. Concern in this regard is exacerbated by excessive funding of microbiological dual-use programs, conducting dubious experiments with pathogens of deadly diseases, especially aerosol experiments, increasing military medical and biological activity outside the national territory and other risk factors. “
According to the Russian official, biological weapons against Russians can be used by both state and non-state actors-for example, by private military companies-that have long become one of the main tools for unleashing local conflicts around the world, which is used by the world financial “elite”. Therefore, “it is necessary to have ready and quick-response forces capable of promptly dealing with the situation on the ground and to take urgent measures to stop the epidemic,” Ryabkov noted.
Meanwhile, in fact, Vladimir Putin and even Sergei Ryabkov did not say anything new. As far back as 2004, Vladimir Maximov, the head of the Virology Center of the Research Institute of Microbiology of the RF Ministry of Defense, warned that “one of the real threats of modernity is the possibility of creating genetically modified infectious agents, which under certain conditions can be used as biologically damaging agents.”
The use of genetic engineering achievements in military development in practice opens the prospect of creating a genetic weapon – a hypothetical version of biological weapons of mass destruction, intended for selective defeat of the population on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender or other genetically determined trait. Such a possibility is not ruled out even by such authoritative and cautious representatives of Russian science as deputy director of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Professor Vyacheslav Tarantul: “I do not see those mechanisms for today that would allow us to create weapons by the color of the skin, hair or eyes. Nevertheless, we must understand that if there are any differences in genes, then it is possible that such weapons will appear. And you need to be morally ready for this. “
In May 2007, FSB director Nikolai Patrushev presented to Vladimir Putin a report on the development of “genetically biological weapons” in the West against the population of Russia. The result of this report was the toughening of rules for the export of human specimens from the country by the Federal Customs Service and the Ministry of Health and Social Development. Simultaneously with the export of bio-samples, the first scandals with the bio lab of the US Department of State, in particular in the Crimea, were engaged in the development and importation of biological weapons.
Similar US laboratories were opened in Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Also in 2016 three biological laboratories in Yerevan, Gyumri and Ijevan were opened with funding from the US Agency for Threat Reduction under the US Department of Defense. In 2012, at that time the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko began to sound the alarm. Less than a year later, he openly and officially accused the US and Georgia of attacking our agriculture. According to him, last year Russia allocated 15 million rubles for the purchase of equipment for South Ossetia, Abkhazia, in order to stop the threat posed by the microbiological laboratory in Georgia. “A weighty confirmation of the threat is that since 2007 the activator of African swine fever has been actively circulating in Russia. A huge economic damage to the southern regions of Russia, “- said the former head of Rospotrebnadzor. Onishchenko said that $ 350 million had been spent on the creation of the laboratory on the territory of Georgia. “It is disturbing that this laboratory is not controlled by the Georgian authorities. The laboratory was created on the former Soviet military base near Tbilisi, “he said. A lot of veterinarians also spoke about the high probability of “unfair competition” on the part of “partners” in personal meetings: too quickly the epidemic of African swine fever passed through the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov, Voronezh and Belgorod regions, putting pig production in Russia on the brink of existence as industry. According to the Rosselkhoznadzor, during these three years the direct losses of the country’s agriculture from the ASF amounted to about 5 billion rubles, indirect (from idle enterprises) – from 50 to 70 billion rubles. To make it clearer, for the Crimea, which, according to the liberals, ate their parmesan, this year funding from the budget of the Russian Federation in the amount of 98 billion rubles was laid. That is, losses from one ASF that came to us from Georgia are equal to 9 months of financing the Crimea.
According to military expert Anatoly Tsyganok, the collection of biomaterials in Russia, which Vladimir Putin spoke of, is organized by the Americans to create a new generation of biological weapons. “This will be a genetic weapon of selective action. Its use is extremely difficult to identify and identify, and human losses can be greater than in the case of atomic bombardment. ” Similar studies have been conducted by the American military for a long time, Tsyganok added, and for several decades there have been several possible cases of such weapons being used. In particular, the expert recalled an episode that occurred about thirty years ago in the countries of Latin America. “The same situation was observed in 2002 during the epidemic of so-called atypical pneumonia in China. Then in this country the coronavirus SARS mowed the Chinese and other Asians, but did not touch a single European, “the scientist added. “There is a well-known case of the swine harvest in Cuba in the late 1980s. Within two months, all these animals died on the island, “he said.
As follows from the Kennedy murder documents published these days, in 1962, General Carter invited him to use “biological agents disguised as substances of natural origin” in order to destroy crops in Cuba. At the same time, it is pointed out that Carter himself indicated the danger of this plan in the event that something goes wrong or opens up the involvement of Washington.
In a word, the facts and evidence that the US is not only developing but ready to use new types of weapons of mass destruction against Russia is enough. We just need to recognize this fact-and be ready not only to protect ourselves, but also to respond symmetrically to “partners.”