• Huldra [they/them, it/its]English
      49•5 months ago

      The US military seems to have a particular vendetta against Muslims getting vaccinated, remember when they used a polio vaccine campaign in Pakistan to collect mass genetic materials in order to try and get a genetic match for Bin Laden?

      • emizeko [they/them]English
        15•5 months ago

        a fake polio vaccine campaign, when they could have just used a real polio vaccine. just pure sadism

    • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]English
      23•5 months ago

      Can we trust China which tries to hide that its vaccine contains pig gelatin, and that it distributes it in Central Asia and other Muslim countries, where many believe this ingredient is “haram”?

      From left to right: “China”, “halal vaccine”

      China distributes vaccine which contains pig gelatin

  • bumpusoot [any]English
    51•5 months ago

    A senior Defense Department official acknowledged the U.S. military engaged in secret propaganda to disparage China’s vaccine in the developing world

    Not that this is a revelation, but it confirms the US would still sooner see millions die rather than let China have any influence (or impact western vaccine profits).

    Article also makes it clear that Facebook knew about this, and that the Pentagon has recently given the same contractor half a billion to do more of this shit. All the “cyber troll” accusations are mass projection, you really can’t trust anything.

  • @Vncredleader@hexbear.netEnglish
    44•5 months ago

    I remember early in the pandemic when I was still on non-political boards’ politics sections and the most left leaning person there, who I got on with quite well, kept saying he was pissed at what he called Third Worldists who wanted a nation other than the US to find a cure. It already seemed stupid to complain about people merely wishing for China or idk even SA to find a vaccine that works, but he would get really firm about it when I asked “well if it has to be somebody wouldn’t it be better if it is someone who won’t try to use it as a cudgel?”

    In hindsight I feel very vindicated, this is the exact shit that one could predict would happen. The US no matter who made a cure, would hold it over poor countrys’ heads and try to prevent usage of a vaccine if it is made by their enemies. You cannot hold the apolitical “I just hope someone, anyone, finds a vaccine” because we do not live in a world in which something so life-saving is going to be treated as property of all of humanity. It cannot be apolitical, it cannot be separated from the empire and its goals

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]English
      19•5 months ago

      well if it has to be somebody wouldn’t it be better if it is someone who won’t try to use it as a cudgel

      sicko-wistful non NATO countries when they don’t have a cudgel

      • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]English
        9•5 months ago

        Their cudgel is going to be disengaging economically from the farcical de-industrialized Western rump. The winds are blowing away from the American empire. Soon we’ll all be party-sicko and no one will be sicko-wistful

  • @astreus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16•5 months ago

    This, like the tariffs on EVs, shows the US would rather people died than lose even a smidge of influence.