Posted on 03/09/2022 7:11:57 AM PST by grundle
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar applauded the opening of the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine, this week, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists.
The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded authority of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, will be used to study anthrax, tularemia and Q fever as well as other dangerous pathogens.
“The continuing cooperation of Nunn-Lugar partners has improved safety for all people against weapons of mass destruction and potential terrorist use, in addition to advancements in the prevention of pandemics and public health consequences,” Lugar said.
Lugar said plans for the facility began in 2005 when he and then Senator Barack Obama entered a partnership with Ukrainian officials. Lugar and Obama also helped coordinate efforts between the U.S and Ukrainian researchers that year in an effort to study and help prevent avian flu.
The Nunn-Lugar Act, which established the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, was established in 1991. Since that time it has provided funding and assistance to help the former Soviet Union dismantle and safeguard large stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The program has also been responsible for destroying chemical weapons in Albania, Lugar said.
Hint, dear readers, if Putin and his ilk are for something, you’d best be against it.
Reality: There are NO GOOD GUYS in this, between Russia and Ukraine. Period. Picking sides is simply picking one EVIL over another.
Pray for those caught in the middle and suffering the consequences: the Ukranian people who are out of the country / getting out of the country / stuck in country.
Good O’l Dick…. Such a dick.
Now,your Soros is showing..
So backing Soros and his plans in a situation we have no business being embroiled in to begin with is the route you want?
Did you not understand in my post? Sheesh.
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