Now you’re an apologist for the Kremlin.
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You didn’t or couldn’t answer the question, “Would the US be okay with a CCP controlled biolab on the Mexican border?”
People can read the transcript, so name-calling me a Kremlin apologist won’t prevent FReepers from looking at information for themselves, which is a tremendous wound in your information suppression efforts.
People can read Putin's transcript, indeed. Quite a long thread on that very thing.
"In view of the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, the Leninist principles of state-building were not only a mistake, but far worse than a mistake. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 this became absolutely obvious.Of course, the events of the past cannot be changed, but we must at least speak about them directly and honestly, without reservations and without political coloration. I can only add that the considerations of the current political conjuncture, however spectacular and advantageous they may seem at a given moment, should not or cannot under any circumstances form the basis for the fundamental principles of statehood.
This is neither the time nor the place to discuss issues of state or constitutional law and to define the concept of citizenship. Nevertheless, the question arises: why did the country have to be shaken even further under these already difficult circumstances?"
Putin says it out loud, in black and white: 'You have no 'state', you have no 'sovereignty', and you have no 'citizenship' -- other than what I grant you of all of those 3 -- so, I'm going to Kiev'.
There are 13 operational and planned BSL 4 labs in the U.S. We don’t need foreign labs for the next pandemic.