For weeks now, US officials have claimed without evidence that Russia could use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, and President Biden is now warning that NATO will “respond” if there is a Russian chemical weapons attack.
“We would respond. We would respond if he uses it. The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use,” Biden said at a press conference from NATO headquarters in Brussels.
When asked if that meant NATO would respond with military force, Biden said it would “trigger a response in kind, whether or not — you’re asking whether NATO would cross; we’d make that decision at the time.”
While the US has been warning of potential Russian chemical attacks, an anonymous Pentagon official said Tuesday that there’s no sign Moscow is planning to use the weapons. “There’s no indication that there’s something imminent in that regard right now,” the official said.
When asked if the US had gathered specific intelligence that Russia might use chemical weapons, Biden said, “I can’t answer that. I’m not going to give you intelligence data, number one.”
The US started accusing Russia of plotting to use chemical or biological weapons when Russia’s claims about Pentagon-linked biological labs in Ukraine became a major news story. While the Biden administration is downplaying the labs as much as it can, there are biological labs in Ukraine funded by the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
The US maintains that the work at the labs is meant to reduce the threat of Soviet-era bioweapons. Robert Pope, the director of the DTRA’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, has warned that the labs could contain pathogens leftover from the Soviet Union’s biological weapons program.
The western Borg-media who have been struggling to declare that “Russia is about to fall any day now”, claiming that Russia therefore may resort to unreliable (depending on the wind) chemical weapon (Russia don’t even have) are slowly forced to admit realities on the ground making it harder for Washington and their Nazi proxies to stage a false flag with the chemical stuff Germany sent before the special operation.
On what basis do you claim to know what weapons the Russian armed forces do or do not have?
Chemical weapons are really only useful for two things:
1) Area denial. They’re a less permanent version of barbed wire. Don’t want an enemy coming through an area, or want them out of that area? Douse the area with stuff that makes it hard to move through or operate in without extensive protective gear.
2) Making yourself (or, in the case of a “false flag” use, your opponent) look evil and/or desperate.
It seems unlikely that the Russian forces will have much use for chemical weapons. Even if their pending withdrawal from the western areas of Ukraine turns into a rout for some reason, the various costs would be much less than the benefit.
It’s obviously #2, a not very subtle hint. Only consider what 9/11 has accomplished.
Russia as a signatory of the Chemical Weapon Convention (US is not) destroyed their chemical weapons, 39 967 agent tonnes of it, in 2017. This is verified by the OPCW.
I neither accept nor challenge your initial argument. But I’m pretty sure the US signed the OPCW on 1/13/1993.
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/cwcsig
So much more reason for the US to destroy its stockpile then isn’t it?
And while at it, destroy the biowarfare labs researching race specific viruses around Russia’s and china’s borders. Those are crimes against humanity on a scale Hitler only could dream of.
Except the US still hasn’t finished doing so. “Both ACWA facilities are scheduled to complete chemical weapons destruction by the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty commitment of Sept. 30, 2023. U.S. Public Law mandates stockpile destruction by Dec. 31, 2023.” So Russia is way ahead of the US by six years.
One should never come out and state what one’s “red line” is.
Poor Joe. Desperately speaking of chemical weapons (used before-Syria) and pretending that Russia is losing the war (this is not what a winner would resort to) . The Pentagon is a beacon of sanity beside Biden, Blinken Nuland and the rest of the neocons who have no reverse gear.
“Biden said it would “trigger a response in kind, whether or not — you’re
asking whether NATO would cross; we’d make that decision at the time.””
This moron can’t even put two words together to make a sentence. In reality, NATO has no ability to “respond in kind”, whatever that means. Russia can destroy NATO’s command and control in hours. Any war with Russia will result in one of two outcomes: 1) the destruction of NATO, or 2) WWIII. Since Russia has no intention of using CBN warfare in Ukraine, both of these outcomes are irrelevant.
The real issue is when the US and its neo-Nazi allies in Ukraine will do a false flag attack, as they did in Syria, and blame it on Russia.
For weeks now, Russian officials have claimed without evidence that the US or NATO could use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, and President Putin is now warning that Russia will “respond” if there is a US or NATO chemical weapons attack. See how this works? LOL! It would be funny, except for the problem of the existing US/NATO chem-bio facilities in the Ukraine having already been outed and admitted to. Who is more likely to stage a false-flag chem-bio attack? (Hint: it doesn’t start with an ‘R’.)
When Bush invaded Iraq, we all knew that weapons of mass destruction were formidable weapons that could wipe out an entire army if caught together in the field. Today, the FBI defines a WMD as an incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce intended to harm several people at once.
Since western governments have already accused Putin of using “chemical weapons” in connection with the assassinations of a handful of individuals, it’s no great leap to assume that Biden is rattling the cages for propaganda purposes when he is actually worried that Putin will respond to sanctions that target specific individuals with a few of his own attacks on targeted individuals…
Seriously, Biden thinks this is Syria!
And if he, of for that matter Westen audiience believe the trash talk, lying , dishing out humiliations are something Russia is supposed to take – and not repay in in kind — time to think again.
Fibbing will not do. Evidence is clearly available, or Russia would not have published it. China would not be demanding clarification from US unless very certain of the documentation.
Of course we are conditioned to thinking everybody liies. Or that such data gathering or anallysus are beyond those people.
But more troubling data is emerging — financing and fronts for the operstion. Biden’s son’s financial group
was one of them. Again, this information has been published oficially and republished again by sources authorized to comment.
There are biological labs funded by Pentagon defence threat reduction agency in Ukraine,DTRA
And when asked if there is specific intelligence that Russians use Chemical attack, Biden’s say,I am not going to answer that intelligence data,
It means “bullshit” or Horsshit.
He is living in different world that it ” twilight years Irish version