Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
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Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#2Shame and fucked up, although everyone is doing it. The Canadian government is currently having a big kerfuffle about foreign influence (1) and seems like the USA conveniently blames all domestic political strife on such interference. The obvious ethics of this aside, it's a good reminder that anything geopolitical is an active propaganda war these days. I notice it less on HN but honestly can't even read Reddit anymore there days because of this re: other current events.
1 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-interference-trudea...
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#3> payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic
Maybe it is wrong but I did not read much about China blaming US for pandemic outside couple of articles claiming that on US media (including this one) while a lot American media, politicians and ordinary people used to blame China for pandemic since the beginning. I think this is just trying to justify this campaign as a reaction mechanism by the author while he admitted that it had put lives in risk and probably was indirectly cause of death for some. And the rest of article is good.
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#4In a long list of awful things that US intelligence agencies have done, this has got to be near the top.
Also, what happened subsequently is a textbook example of what Chalmers Johnson described in "Blowback".
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#5That’s pretty straight up evil
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#6Not the first time either. The US covert use of fake vaccination drives to gather intel to assassinate Bin Laden caused the public to become distrustful of vaccinations and led to the resurgence of Polio in that region.
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#7> payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic Maybe it is wrong but I did not read much about China blaming US for pandemic outside couple of articles claiming that on US media (including this one) while a lot American media, politicians and ordinary people used to blame China for pandemic since the beginning. I think this is just trying to justify this campaign as a reaction mechanism by the a…
I would imagine China has little reason to claim in english that it's the US bioweapon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_Chi...
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#8Not the first time either. The US covert use of fake vaccination drives to gather intel to assassinate Bin Laden caused the public to become distrustful of vaccinations and led to the resurgence of Polio in that region.
Can you provide a source that the vaccines were fake? My understanding is that it was a real vaccine drive also gathering intel. But please share your sources.
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#9> payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic Maybe it is wrong but I did not read much about China blaming US for pandemic outside couple of articles claiming that on US media (including this one) while a lot American media, politicians and ordinary people used to blame China for pandemic since the beginning. I think this is just trying to justify this campaign as a reaction mechanism by the a…
I would imagine China has little reason to claim in english that it's the US bioweapon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_Chi...
Well, it's more like: they tweeted links to published claims that it was a US bioweapon from a think-tank based in Montreal (Global Research Canada), in direct response to outright claims by US politicians & government officials that it was a Chinese bioweapon. You can read a detailed timeline in this report from the Atlantic Council:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/W...
Re: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
#10Not the first time either. The US covert use of fake vaccination drives to gather intel to assassinate Bin Laden caused the public to become distrustful of vaccinations and led to the resurgence of Polio in that region.
Can you provide a source that the vaccines were fake? My understanding is that it was a real vaccine drive also gathering intel. But please share your sources.
I think gp intends "fake" to modify "vaccine drives", not "vaccine".