This is the next big concern, coming up fast. If we can trust Russian sources, and of course claims by both sides must be taken not just with a grain of salt, but a truck load, or even an entire salt mine, bioweapons research is going at full speed in the Ukraine. This time, the heat has been turned up. Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops concluded: "The United States aims to develop a universal genetically engineered biological weapon capable of infecting not only people, but animals as well as agricultural crops. Its use involves, among other things, the goal of inflicting large-scale and irreparable economic damage on the enemy," the commission wrote in its final report.
"The covert and targeted use of such a weapon in anticipation of a positive inevitable direct military confrontation could create a significant advantage for US forces over the adversary, even against those who possess other types of weapons of mass destruction," the commission added. "The possession of such highly effective biological weapons creates, in the view of the US military, the real prerequisites to change the nature of contemporary armed conflicts."