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It’s not a bit. I follow readouts from the Russian MoD closely.

This is from Tuesday, June 25th RTVI

Russian Defense Ministry: Components for creating a “dirty bomb” are being imported to Ukraine

Spent nuclear fuel and waste from hazardous chemical production facilities are being imported to Ukraine, which could be used to create a "dirty bomb." This was stated during a briefing on June 25 by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCBD) Troops of the Russian Armed Forces.

According to him, the Russian military department has operational information about the import to Ukraine “for subsequent disposal” of radiochemical substances, which “turn the country into a dumping ground for spent nuclear fuel and waste from hazardous chemical production.”

“The main supply routes are organized through Poland and Romania. At the same time, organizational, logistics and financial issues are personally supervised by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andrey Ermak,” Kirillov said.

He claims that “these substances can be used to create a so-called ‘dirty bomb’.” It could then be used “under a false flag,” Kirillov added.

This is not the first time that Russia has said that Ukraine could allegedly resort to using a “dirty bomb” (usually this term refers to the most technically simple type of radiological weapon. — RTVI note).

In particular, in October 2022 , the then Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated that Ukraine could be preparing a provocation using a “dirty bomb”.

At the time, the RIA Novosti news agency claimed that the purpose of such a provocation was to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction “and thereby launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign in the world aimed at undermining trust in Moscow.”

Washington feared that in the fall of 2022, Moscow was deliberately disseminating information about Ukraine’s plans to use a “dirty bomb.” The White House did not rule out that Russia wanted to use these accusations against Ukraine as a pretext for launching a nuclear strike. This was reported in March by CNN, which noted that at the end of that year the United States began “thorough preparations” for a possible Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine.

Also on Tuesday, the Russia MoD announced that they detected an increase of US military-biological presence in Africa:

“The documents at our disposal confirm that the US military-biological presence on the African continent is growing at a rapid pace,” [Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops (RCVZ) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation] said.

He noted that the department had noted the activities of key Pentagon contractors on the African continent - in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Uganda and South Africa. The customers on the part of the American government are the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DITRA) and the State Department.

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As Kirillov clarified, these are not all initiatives on the African continent.

"I would like to once again remind you of Washington's non-transparent methods of work and warn our African partners against cooperation with the United States in the military-biological sphere. As practice shows, such interaction results in the loss of national sovereignty in the sphere of biosecurity and the worsening of the disease situation. Examples include infections such as yellow fever, monkeypox and Rift Valley fever, an outbreak of which was recorded in Cairo, where the US Navy's military-biological laboratory was located," Kirillov concluded.

At the same time, dual-use research and disregard for biosafety standards have led to a worsening of the infectious disease situation in the United States itself.

There has been a ramping up of radiological and biological weapons activity from the US recently. They’re planning something. Clearly enough for Russia to raise its concerns.

Iranian election goes to the second round, between the conservative and the “reformist” candidates.

Which means that protests are almost inevitable. The CIA (through foreign NGOs) will get busy soon.

It’s a nuclear take which means the chances of it happening is extremely slim. No need to worry lol. I just like saying shit to provoke discussions.

Ukraine or Israel.

But, if Biden is really cruel, a dirty bomb at the Paris Olympics. Just in time for the September debate.

Nuclear take: we’re going to see a nuclear explosion before November. Not a huge explosion, but probably a low yield tactical nuke used on an area that minimizes casualties.

That’s going to change the political discourse completely.

Yes, it’s a tool that can be wielded for good or for evil. For example, if China enacts a law like this, we can be assured that they will use it for good. If Russia does that, I wouldn’t trust them even for a second. It’s that simple.

He is. The NSA is recording every single American who has criticized Biden’s debate performance last night. They will all be shot if he loses.

Trump’s impeachment literally started in 2019 when he withheld $400 million aid money to Ukraine in order to pressure the newly elected Zelensky to investigate into Biden’s connection with Burisma (which started just after the Maidan coup in 2015).

As others have said, Hunter’s connection with Burisma and Joe Biden’s pressuring Poroshenko and the Ukrainian prosecutor general into dropping Burisma investigation are real. It is not clear how much of the Biden’s family corruption has been embellished by the GOP though (there is an entire story involving Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian and Chinese investors), given that they have a penchant of blowing things out of proportion. We do know that Devon Archer (who met Hunter Biden through Christopher Heinz, heir to the Heinz company and John Kerry’s stepson, and served with together on the board of Burisma) repeatedly referring to the Biden family as “The Brand” as a signal to access and power that would “open doors” during his congressional hearing.

At the very least, Trump believes that the Biden family money laundering is real, and he’s probably petty enough to want to sever the Bidens’ investment Ukraine. The real question is whether there is an entire laundering operation involving the Democrats and their proxies in Ukraine, and we are unlikely to find out the true extent of this given that IRS whistleblowers have claimed that they have been blocked from investigating further. You have to ask, where did the $175 billion of aid money to Ukraine after the war started really went?

Then there is the question of whether the Democrats’ strong response to impeach Trump would suggest that they really have something to hide.

It’s not meant to be taken seriously that’s why it’s in the hot take category. But I appreciate that people find my other analyses useful or interesting, even though they don’t always end up correct.

I simply like to inject some interesting takes here, sometimes provocatively, and let people have fun discussing them.

Mr. Trump, I am a liaison of President Xi from the People’s Republic of China on Hexbear.net.

Secretary General Xi wishes to inform you that you are a very smart man and the only president the American people deserve to lead their country.

Should the illegal government run by the Democratic president Joe Biden proceed with their prosecution against you, which everyone knows is totally unfounded, Secretary General Xi would like to extend an invitation for you to come to the People’s Republic of China to run your government-in-exile here against the illegal government of the United States.

Would you be willing to accept this invitation from Secretary General Xi should the cheating Democratic Party attempt to oust you in the near future?

I don’t disagree. It is a difficult problem. I am just saying to beware of supporting certain laws even though they claim to do it in the name of “anti-imperialism”, especially if the party claiming to do so is right winger themselves.

It’s going to be even worse for the Democrats if they replace Biden now. No way they don’t know this (but maybe I give them too much credit).

First, it would show how utterly unfocused and unprepared the Democrats are regarding the upcoming election, which is merely months away.

Why call for Biden to withdraw now that the time has passed for a primary that was never held? This kind of behavior from Biden is not new, and clips of him have been circulating for a good amount of time now. Why act so shocked all of a sudden? If they had wanted a replacement, they would have called for it months ago. Now they all want to replace Biden because of one bad debate performance? Does that even make sense? It’s clear that they wanted Biden to secure the nomination first.

No matter the debate performance, the Democratic Party would do far better by doubling down on Biden, in spite of all his flaws. At least you don’t go down appearing weak and confused, which would hurt their future chances even more.