By Harold Pease Ph. D.
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. For Russia the number one issue starting the war was the American built and funded biolabs on Ukraine’s border that threatened their country. The Biden administration “denied the existence of US-owned or US-operated ‘chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine,’ dismissing the claims as Chinese and Russian propaganda in a March 9, 2022, statement, the month after Kremlin forces invaded.”
But Biden was caught in his own lie when his own Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, the day before the invasion, panicked and said: “Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of.” Her blurting out what had been classified throughout the Obama years, was spot on and later verified in congressional testimony (“DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad,”By Josh Christenson, New York Post, May 11, 2026). The Biden administration and their Deep State media went into overdrive and successfully censored this admission. Few dared counter it.
At the time, spring of 2022, LibertyUnderFire.org published what was known about secret American bio weapon labs in Ukraine, built by our own Department of Defense and tax payer funded, in the following columns: “It’s a Matter of Trust: Biden or Putin on Ukraine,” March 4, 2022, “Are U.S. Run Bioweapon Labs in Ukraine as Russia Says?”, March 11, 2022, “Putin is Destroying the New World Order in Ukraine,” March 18, 2022, and “The War Behind the War in Ukraine, April 1, 2022” . At least 13 biolabs were experimenting with gain of function research on lethal pathogens to human beings. We were right then and we remain vindicated today. If Mexico was doing the same thing on our border and one mistake could put a lethal virus in the U.S. we would demand it cease and if Mexico refused we’d also invade to destroy the labs.
Today, as a result of President Trump’s executive order ending federally funded “gain-of-function” research, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard acknowledges the existence of more than 120 biological laboratories located in at least 30 countries abroad that have been funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades. Her team will be identifying more specifically “where these labs are, what pathogens they contain and what ‘research’ is being conducted to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and the world.” She said, “The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have.”
Gabbard continued, “Yet despite these obvious dangers, politicians, so-called bs can hahealth professionals, like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.” The funding past through a Department of Defense program that ironically “sought to dispose of weapons of mass destruction after the end of the Cold War” but instead may have incentivized new weapons of mass destruction. These clinical trials currently being conducted at the biolabs are now “raising significant, ethical, financial and security concerns,” ODNI officials said (“DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad).
Last May, “Trump signed an executive action to ban all federal funding for the gain-of-function research in China, Iran or other nations that don’t exercise proper oversight, claiming that SARS-CoV-2 had proved dangerous pathogens “can leak out innocently, stupidly and incompetently, but innocently [can] destroy half the world.” Some dare to include for political purposes.
Two major concerns that arose for the Gabbard team was first they were“unable to determine how many possible enhanced potential pandemic pathogens were being researched in China or other nations — despite more than $1.4 billion being spent on such experiments outside the US between 2014 and 2023.” We should know. A second was harnessing oversight to their grants. “Between 2014 and 2021, US-funded experiments on bat coronaviruses at the now-infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology were also found by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to have violated grant terms by making the viruses 10,000 times more infectious, though officials have denied that the research caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Spring of 2022 we documented that the Deep State built 13 (shown now to be 40) bio-labs in Ukraine (and over 120 world-wide) to study the most dangerous viruses on the planet. All potentially doing gain of function research, but without any government able to limit their dark experiments. These threaten the whole planet. (It’s a Matter of Trust, Biden or Putin on Ukraine?”, LibertyUnderFire.org). The Defense Department argued then that these labs are to identify threats not create threats. Why then would they seek to hide or destroy the evidence? Don’t we already have such labs in the United States, say Fort Detrick, Maryland, to identify threats? But in the U.S. gain of function research has to be explained and people ask questions. Hence they have outsourced it to Ukraine, China, and 30 countries where it is not illegal.
We argued in 2022 and do so again in 2026, escaping viruses know no national boundaries. If a pathogen has not been seen anywhere on the earth in the last 50 years why not extinguish the last remnant of it from your lab, not study it risking its escape, thus re-emerging killing perhaps millions again? How stupid, or evil, is man? (“Are US-Run Bioweapon Labs in Ukraine as Russia says?,” LibertyUnderFire.org, March 11, 2022). Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has confirmed what was already known but censored by the Deep State Obama/Biden media and government. Thank you Trump and Gabbard for bringing this evil again to light.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #873. Help preserve our Republic while we still can by sharing this column.