DISINFO: Coronavirus is psychological warfare against enemies like China and Iran

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DISINFO: Coronavirus is psychological warfare against enemies like China and Iran

SUMMARY

The coronavirus may be a tool in the silent competition of the big powers. After the Vietnam war, warmongering Western elites learnt that very often that the answer is not conventional war, much less when you’re trying to hit strategic enemies like China or Iran, who have capabilities for a nuclear response or high resistance. In this case, you take a different route. An interesting fact is that coronavirus is not a pandemic aiming to kill a lot of people, but to achieve other effects such as social and economic re-engineering, without dropping a single bomb. When the mortality rate is inversely proportional to the panic caused, it is legitimate to think that we are dealing not with a biological weapon but with a sophisticated tool at the service of psychological warfare. The final project is the destruction of nation states.

RESPONSE

Conspiracy theory, with zero evidence presented to support any of the multiple claims. This is part of Russia’s disinformation campaign on coronavirus, well documented by both media and governments, whose elements were widely reported by Russian and international publications. The EUvsDisinfo database has more than 110 Kremlin-linked disinformation cases on this subject, such as claims that Bill Gates and George Soros are sponsoring the coronavirus, that it is a UK, US or NATO creation and the Americans have its cure, that it is an artificial disease which specifically targets Chinese DNA, that it was created with economic goals while big pharma companies are spreading panic for their own profits, that it is a biological weapon against Russia and China, that it will wipe out Ukraine’s population in a few days or that it was predicted by Nostradamus and others.

Disclaimer

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