John Bolton Coauthored Strategy on Creating Bioweapons to Ensure US ‘Global Leadership’

Bolton remains one of the world’s most notorious (and unrepentant) war criminals.His continued presence at the very core of US power testifies to the moral bankruptcy of this system.

 










By Ilya Zukanov
Sputnik International


 

Some people call Bolton a “lunatic”, but this hides the evil of a professional war criminal.

Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops have released trove after trove of confidential documents detailing Pentagon bioweapons programs across the globe, particularly in Ukraine. US officials and media have broadly ignored the revelations, but part of the information has been corroborated in independent reporting.


 
John Bolton, the Washington arch-neocon who served as one of the architects of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, and as former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor before resigning in disgrace, was intimately involved in formulating the US drive for global dominance in bioweapons research, a top Russian military official has indicated.


 
“The ongoing research by the United States to enhance the pathogenic properties of microorganisms is forcing us to rethink the statements of US officials in charge of countering biological threats. One such official is John Bolton, who [previously] served as the US national security advisor,” Russian RCBP Troops chief Igor Kirillov said in a briefing Saturday.
 

The “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” paper’s reference to the need for “some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor” for neocons to be able to implement their empire-building plans raised eyebrows among journalists and historians in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which took place one year after the paper was published.

New Documents

As is typical in his briefings, Kirillov accompanied his presentation with a fresh trove of documents, including papers related to US efforts to build up the country’s military-biological potential. Unlike in earlier briefings, which featured classified materials, most of the documents cited in Saturday’s presentation are already publicly available, with the MoD’s take focusing on analyzing what is said and reading between the lines to uncover their implications.
 


The docs included the National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan, a policy document published by the White House in October detailing US efforts ostensibly aimed at “countering biological threats, enhancing pandemic preparedness, and achieving global health security.” Kirillov pointed out that the strategy has received $88 billion in funding for its implementation over five years, including $17 billion during the first year.
 


Pointing to the document’s statement that “biological risk management requires understanding and assessing biological risks and taking steps to mitigate those risks, regardless of whether they originate in the United States or abroad,” Kirillov cited this as evidence of US attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of other states.
 


The officer also pointed to US plans to continue the study of the pathogens of especially dangerous infectious diseases endemic to certain geographical areas, and efforts to cover up accusations of military biological activity by inviting the participation of civilian health organizations and scientists to work as contractors for the Pentagon.

 
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“Thus, within the framework of the strategy, the United States intends to strengthen global control over the biological situation in the world, and reserve the right to conduct ‘dual purpose’ research, including outside US territory,” Kirillov said.
 
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Kirillov also pointed to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Strategy  for the years 2022-2027, whose unclassified portion similarly acknowledges the “dual use nature” of biological research, and prioritizes US and allied forces’ “ability to compete and, when necessary, win against potential WMD-armed adversaries,” including by “highlighting WMD warfighting challenges and adversary vulnerabilities through strategic and operational analysis, and supporting DoD plans and exercises focused on CWMD threats.The Russian MoD previously implicated the DTRA in a broad range of bioweapons-related activities around the globe, including the operation, funding, construction, and modernization of biolabs across Ukraine working with dangerous pathogens since at least 2005.

 
Kirillov also pointed to the heavily redacted 345-page trove of  recently retrieved by Judicial Watch through a FOIA request regarding the Pentagon’s biological activities in Ukraine, including financing to Pentagon contractor Black and Veatch. The contractor and others like it received tens of millions of dollars to assist in a range of biowarfare-related programs across the Eastern European nation, from research into plague and typhus to diseases targeting agriculture, flora, fauna and even certain ethnic groups.
 


“The published documents once again confirm the extent of cooperation between Kiev and Washington, as well as attempts to establish control over pathogens in Ukrainian laboratories through the introduction of the Pathogen Asset Control System (PACS), elements of which were transferred to Ukraine under the label ‘property of the US Government,'” Kirillov said.


 
“This corresponds to the materials at our disposal,” the Russian officer said, pointing out that the MoD has already detailed how PACS has been used to enable the Pentagon to monitor in real time the location and use of deadly pathogens in laboratories across the planet, and provide it access to the results of ethically and legally dubious experimentation.
 

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