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.

The Pentagon is a terror organization.

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

I see that the time span between "leftist conspiracy theory" and being confirmed by western media as truth is no longer 50 years

The pentagon, and holding back humanity. Name a better duo.

But I was told that all the free thinkers against the government were anti vax

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