[Global Times reporter Li Jian] Editor's note: The United States fanned the flames before the outbreak of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Seeing the fire, Washington added fuel to the fire while trying to stay away from the "fire field" for fear of burning himself.
However, people are not as good as the sky. A spark splashed on the United States and burned a big hole, which attracted everyone to gather around and look into the hole, trying to figure out what the Americans were covering up.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was conducting a military biological program under the direction and support of the U.S. military.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman also said that China calls on the United States to open its biological laboratory in Ukraine for independent investigation by international experts, and to stop its exclusive opposition to the establishment of a verification mechanism for the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons.
It is almost certain that these reasonable demands will not be accepted by the United States, which has been promoting the development, testing, development, and mass use of biological weapons for nearly a century.
During this time, U.S. awareness of this weapon has continued to deepen.
Only by clarifying the process of deep understanding of biological weapons in the United States can we see Washington's underlying logic through various incidents and true and false information, and understand the fundamental reason why the United States "can't stop".
The "terrible" and "available" of the plague
In the history of mankind, if there is a list of horrors, the top one must be the plague.
In 1346, the terrible plague broke out in what is now Ukraine. People who fled took the "death" to Sicily, and then spread to the entire European continent.
In just five years, the first wave of plague killed one-third to one-half of Europe's population.
In fact, more than 1,000 years ago, the mighty Roman Empire was attacked by plague five times.
This terrible plague not only severely weakened the Roman Empire, but also shattered the dream of revival of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Another terrible plague was smallpox.
At the end of the 15th century, when European colonists landed on the New World, they brought this deadliest "weapon" with them.
Why were a few hundred Spanish colonists able to conquer the Aztec Empire (now Mexico) with a population of 25 million?
Because a Spanish soldier captured by the Aztecs contracted smallpox.
In the next 10 years, the Aztec population was reduced to 6.5 million, the survivors lost their fighting spirit, and a powerful empire died.
Plague is undoubtedly a nightmare for human beings, but there are two directions for how to interpret the dream: one is that human beings stubbornly fight against the disease and continue to pursue the light; the other is to study the "available" places of the terrible plague, step by step toward the darkness.
The plague is terrible, and its attacks on human beings are indiscriminate, just like launching a "people's war", and those who deliberately spread the plague are the public enemy of the whole people.
From ancient times to the present, whether it is the spreader of the plague or the developer of biological weapons, two words are deeply engraved on their foreheads - top secret.
During World War II, there were two projects with the highest level of secrecy in the US military, one was the "Manhattan Project" to develop nuclear weapons, and the other was the biological weapons project promoted by the Special Programs Office of the US Department of Chemical Warfare.
The two projects must never be intertwined in personnel, and relevant personnel are not allowed to leave the United States.
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In 1944, the United Kingdom formulated a top-secret bombing plan, intending to send heavy bombers to carry more than 40,000 special bombs, focusing on bombing 6 German cities including Berlin and Hamburg.
The bombs each included 106 "anthrax bombs" weighing 1.8 kilograms.
According to calculations, the more than 4 million "anthrax bombs" could kill 3 million German civilians.
After the bombing, the bombed area will become a human exclusion zone.
At the same time, the British army also intends to airdrop millions of "anthrax beef patties" to Germany.
These pancakes are not made of beef, but flaxseed pancakes that cows love very much.
The British organized female workers to inject the cakes with spores of anthrax, a bacteria that kills cattle and infects humans with anthrax.
The "demise" of beef and dairy cattle would directly affect the food supply for the German army and civilians.
These plans were ultimately too brutal and the Allies had the initiative on the battlefield and were not implemented.
However, this "anthrax bomb" has been mass-produced.
It was born in an arsenal in Vigo County, Indiana, USA.
The reason why the United Kingdom wants to cooperate with the United States is that the large-scale research and development, testing, storage and production of biological weapons needs to be backed by strong industrial strength. The United States is very compliant and willing to participate in it.
The above history tells us that the US biological weapons program began with a European "need".
The real rise of biological weapons development to the national level began in the 1920s, with France taking the lead, followed by countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States.
The reason why these countries are "rushing" to develop biological weapons is that these weapons, like chemical weapons, can cause mass destruction to the enemy without destroying the infrastructure, while preserving their own power.
Compared with chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, biological weapons have several characteristics that are more valued: first, they are comprehensive and indiscriminate, and they are mainly aimed at civilians, which can weaken the ability of enemy countries to participate in war; It is easy to be regarded as a "normal" outbreak during the war; third, protection is difficult; fourth, the technical threshold is relatively low, the cost requirements are not high, and the lethality is not weak.
In World War II, the United Kingdom believed that Germany might use bombers to launch biological warfare against the United Kingdom, so it vigorously developed biological weapons to retaliate against Germany at any time, and the responsibility of providing "ammunition" to Britain fell on the United States.
In 1943, the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Division formed the highly classified Special Programs Division, centered on Camp Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, which would later become "world-renowned" for biological weapons. " of Fort Detrick.
After the establishment of the Special Programs Division, it was kept highly secret even within the U.S. military, and the relevant technical personnel were directly under the command of the Chemical Warfare Department officials and Washington.
The attitude of the United States at the time was not to use chemical and biological weapons first on the battlefield, but to produce large quantities of chemical warfare agents and biological munitions for the United Kingdom.
To this end, the Chemical Warfare Department uses an arsenal in Vigo County as a base for clandestine testing and production.
The stronghold has a special railway line, an explosion test site of 18,000 square meters, 46 ammunition depots and 3 large underground storage facilities, as well as a factory building and a barracks with thousands of people.
The U.S. military mass-produces anthrax spores, special bombs, and bomb fillers here.
Battalion Detrick opened the Biological Warfare School in 1944, and large numbers of officers trained by the school were sent to the European and Pacific theaters.
On a larger scale, the Special Projects Office conducts research collaborations with many prestigious American universities, including Harvard University.
By the end of World War II, the United States had invested a terrifying $400 million in biological weapons research and development, while the cost-intensive atomic bomb project was five times that.
When Japan was about to surrender, the United States planned to terminate the work of the Special Programs Office and gradually turn the productive forces formed during the war to peaceful uses. However, Stimson, the then U.S. Secretary of Operations, ordered that the research activities of biological warfare should not stop.
This was followed by the scandal of the United States providing asylum to the notorious Japanese officer of Unit 731, and the use of biological weapons against Chinese and North Korean troops on the Korean battlefield.
The advent of the Cold War completely changed America's attitude towards biological weapons.
The idea of biological warfare has reached its peak because the US hopes that the attack power of biological weapons will reach the level of nuclear weapons, or that biological weapons will be used immediately after the use of nuclear bombs to completely destroy the other side's military objectives and people's will to resist.
In addition, in the case of a highly tense military confrontation between the two camps in the Cold War, the "invisibility" feature of the use of biological weapons has been taken seriously.
In fact, the United States has been "biological and chemical", not only used biological weapons in the Korean War, but also used defoliants and inhibitors for crops in the Vietnam War.
When the Cuban Missile Crisis hit, the U.S. military was ready to spread the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.
Although the United States has done a good job in secret, biological and chemical weapons have always been unacceptable to the international community.
In 1969, the US media exposed a biological and chemical weapons accident that had been covered up, causing an uproar in the United States, and the use of chemical weapons by the US military in Vietnam was also condemned internationally.
Arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union began.
Under pressure from all parties, then US President Nixon delivered a speech on November 25, 1969, announcing that the US would give up biological weapons and limit the production of chemical weapons.
However, the so-called "abandonment" means that the United States restricts the development of biological weapons to the scope of defense.
Later, the United States believed that the Soviet Union was a giant in the field of biological weapons, so Washington deliberately blurred the difference between defense and offense, and never gave up related research and development under extreme secrecy.
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In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed.
After that, the Defense Disaster Mitigation Agency of the US Department of Defense developed a plan to destroy Russian and CIS nuclear, chemical and other weapons of mass destruction, including the Biological Threat Reduction Program.
At the same time, the U.S. military took advantage of it to "hunt" Soviet biological weapons experts and technologies under the guise of preventing biological threats, and upgraded the biological facilities left by the Soviet Union in the CIS countries to establish high-level protective biological experiments. At the same time, it also obtained many research results of the Soviet Union in the field of biological weapons.
The biggest opponent "suddenly died", the Americans thought they could sit back and relax, but soon the smile disappeared from their faces.
Because the Americans discovered that when a Soviet Union fell, more enemies emerged.
It has become easier for war-torn countries in the Balkans, the Middle East and Africa, various extremist organizations, and even some individuals to obtain unconventional weapons developed by major powers from the international market.
If the threshold for nuclear weapons is high and the strike capability of chemical weapons is limited, then biological weapons are not only "easy to obtain", but also "easy to use" because they target civilians without protection capabilities.
In the first decade after the end of the Cold War, the United States had its eyes fixed on a few anti-American countries.
The turning point was 9/11 in 2001, when terrorists hijacked planes and launched suicide attacks, followed by a massive anthrax mail attack.
At the time, hundreds of people were exposed to anthrax spores.
Prior to this, the United States had taken a step back in implementing the Biological Weapons Convention, and since then it has taken a more negative attitude.
While it builds a strong civil defense system at home, it deploys a large number of military-controlled biological laboratories internationally.
Americans realize that biological weapons that can threaten the United States, if they are "grafted" with the powerful technology and military strength of the United States, will definitely become a trump card in their own hands.
Throughout the history of the United States, from the founding of the country to the present, there have been only 16 years of no war in the more than 240 years.
This fully shows that the Americans are the veritable "fighting nation".
Chinese thinker, writer, and military strategist Wang Shouren, also known as Wang Yangming, once said in a famous saying that breaking the mountain is easy, breaking the heart is difficult.
The United States is a typical example of "thieves too strong" and greed runs rampant.
There are too many enemies in America's mind. As long as there are enemies, Washington's "fascination" with biological weapons will not stop.