The Elites See the Future of Plagues By Chris Knight (Florida)
News has been quite on the disease/pandemic front. Many of us thought that the health technocrats would whip up public hysteria over the latest version of Covid. There has been a return of masks in some jurisdictions, and some sectors, such as health care workers in the blue states of the US and Western and South Australian hospitals. But, not much more, at least yet. As documented in articles at this blog yesterday, the aftermath of Covid is still with us, with both sudden deaths, turbo-charged cancers and high excess mortality.
Nevertheless, as noted in a recent report by the US RAND Corporation, funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the National Defense Research Institute, the next big thing on the biological front will be bioweapons. While nations once were shy to contemplate the use of such weapons for fear that the unreleased plagues would not stop at enemy borders, genetic engineering has now opened the possibility of ethno-racially specific bioweapons. Robert Kennedy Jr., the presidential candidate, got into hot water with the establishment media for suggesting that Covid may have been designed to target some ethnic groups over others.
Cutting to the chase, communist China has been collecting vast amounts of genetic data about people in the West. Why would it be interested in doing this? If Covid-19 was a bioweapon, released either by accident of deliberately, we should be concerned about any future war with China, which could see them release new bioweapons upon the West. The open borders ideology of globalism would make the spread of disease easy. Multitudes of CCP/PLA agents who now freely enter the West (e.g. through the open southern border), as part of the immigration Great Replacement, would joyfully spread any bugs the CCP would want. Talk about the West digging its own grave!
“In a recent report by the RAND Corporation, funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the National Defense Research Institute, researchers explored the potential for engineered pathogens to become instruments of warfare. Now that advanced and complex biotechnology has left the realm of science fiction, and become reality, analysts and experts are beginning to assume that nation-states and non-state groups will consider these technologies in their planning and strategic forecasts.
“Technological improvements, including messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines, the use of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) gene sequences as a genetic engineering tool, and advances in BCI (brain-computer interfaces), may shift strategic calculations,” the report states. “The emergence of ever more countries with advanced biotechnology capabilities raises a new, more dynamic future for biotechnology at war.”
Historically, biological weapons were often dismissed by nation-states due to the high risk of collateral damage to their own forces. Pathogens have a nasty habit of moving around, and targeting enemies and allies alike. Moreover, nation-states have generally shied away from large-scale biological weapons, and focused their work on more precise targeting, such as assassinations. It should be noted that this isn’t a hard rule though. It is no secret that in the early-2000s, Al Qaeda was dabbling in the creation of large scale anthrax weapons, but due to Western intervention as well as the high resource cost, the terrorist group found it easier to simply rely on more traditional weaponry.
However, the landscape is changing. Advances in biotechnology, particularly in the field of engineered pathogens, are presenting new strategic opportunities and challenges in warfare. As artificial intelligence continues to develop and CRISPR technology becomes simpler and more cost effective, the report states that the idea of creating an engineered pathogen that targets specific individuals with certain genetic markers is quickly leaving the realm of science fiction.
It is also much easier to hide.
“In comparison with nontransmissible pathogens, transmissible ones are inherently difficult to attribute to an actor or even to natural versus human causes…[and] have much greater potential for mass casualties and societal disruption,” the report states.
This difficulty in attribution makes transmissible bioweapons appealing for clandestine operations, as their origins can be easily obscured, thereby complicating international accountability and response.
The RAND report explains, “The intrinsic ambiguity of disease transmission is a strategic asset for actors who wish to achieve concrete goals… in a clandestine manner.” This ambiguity presents a significant hurdle in developing effective countermeasures and in holding perpetrators accountable.
There is a big caveat here, and it circles around access. In order to create such biotechnological weapons, the actor will either need to build it themselves using very expensive and high level technology, or steal it from what will be highly secured laboratory environments. While many Western countries like the United States, or near-peer adversaries like Russia and China will have the resources to effectively build such weapons, the vast majority of other countries won’t.
“The easiest technical means for realizing a transmissible bioweapon would be for a malicious actor to gain access to a laboratory already equipped to manipulate high-risk pathogens,” the report says. In simple terms, they steal the technology.”
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