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Pawsative's avatar

Apparently Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca hedge fund has been investing in Ukrainian Biolabs for many years.

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Ha, haven't checked out that one--thanks for bringing it up.

Now that the Russians have told 'the West' that old Polish jets and their airbases are legitimate targets, the backtracking was instantaneousl

I'd suspect that the same applies to the eventual 'relocation' of these pathogens to, say, eastern Poland or the like.

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Pawsative's avatar

Interesting how Russia and China and working together (once again)

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Ro Gal's avatar

So many nefarious players, with multiple unpleasant outcomes possible, nuclear exchange being the ultimate. Remedy? - A cleansing within the USG coupled simultaneously with a concerted alliance to "clean up on aisle 5".

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epimetheus's avatar

Didn't Jefferson write about the tree of liberty and its 'watering' requirements?

Too bad that, absent any 'samizdat'-like offline organisation, every such attempt will be foiled by the (secret) security forces.

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Thom Prentice's avatar

Pure Hitler.

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epimetheus's avatar

Who, Mr. Putin?

You know, the 'this man [Saddam, Assad, Qadafi, now Putin] is the new Hitler' trope is potentially self-destructive: if these are seen analogous, perhaps Mr. Hitler wasn't that bad? /sarcasm

I'm not trying to mess with your head here, though, but I'd think Mr. Unz had a fair point to say about this (absurd) claim:

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-putin-as-hitler/

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Oh my, now that you mention it--UNC Chapel Hill is currently looking for a Norwegian partner in my field (History), as I learned yesterday.

There's also this 'sustainable future' partnership:

https://diku.no/en/programmes/utforsk

Academic partnerships, while a really good thing, are never without 'additional' effects, though, such as, for instance, what US stakeholders consider 'public diplomacy' tools, such as the Fulbright program, other visiting scholar exchang programs, and the like. The Norwegian UTFORSK program runs via the Foreign Office, i.e., there's a lot of 'other' things on the minds of the funders.

In the case of my field, the connection with UNC Chapel Hill looking for a partner (albeit in History) is quite…something, all things Mr. Baric, EcoHealth Alliance, and WIV considered.

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