> I hate how paranoid this timeline has made me

Ever wonder what a country waging a grinding siege war could do with a plague lab?

That’s keeping me up. Threaten nukes and deploy the plague to show you aren’t kidding.

There was a news story yesterday about the Ukrainian government using drones to airlift medicine to occupied territories that have been cut off from pharmaceutical supply chains (the occupation forces said they would figure it out, but didn’t)

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ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Ever wonder what a country waging a grinding siege war could do with a plague lab?

There's a reason the US and Soviets were largely willing to get rid of the stuff - it's fairly useless geopolitically, because you mostly can't target it.

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mikrl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Your reassurance relies on strategic calculus of the 20th century, arrived at by a much less cynical leadership, in both cases.

It can definitely be targeted: behind enemy lines, or in the occupied territory with selective access to antibiotics. Population migration can be enforced coercively too.

This is the same regime pulling stunts like this [0] and threatening nuclear war, absolutely would not be surprised.

[0] https://www.occrp.org/en/news/putins-chef-sends-bloody-sledg...

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beedeebeedee 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s only if you care about nation states.

	▲	hardbass 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Viruses and bacteria don't care about nation states