Imagine if in fall of 2019, China had sent a massive military team to the World Military Games in Dallas, left without winning almost any medals, and then a few weeks later Dallas became the epicenter of a deadly pandemic? What if a couple weeks before any cases with symptoms became visible, Chinese intelligence began circulating a classified memo to Russia and North Korea about a deadly virus emerging in Dallas?
Few would argue we wouldn’t see full throated calls for war on the front page of the NYTimes as effigies of Xi Jinping burned in the streets.
Consider then, that in the fall of 2019, the US sent a massive military team to the World Military Games in Wuhan, left without winning almost any medals, and then a couple weeks after they left, Wuhan became the epicenter of a deadly pandemic. And a couple weeks before any cases with symptoms became visible, American intelligence began circulating a classified memo to NATO and Israel about a deadly virus emerging in Wuhan.
A Changing World
It’s impossible to understand the grand arc of events in the world today without first understanding the emergence of the new global economic order that is occurring.
As it currently stands, the 2000 wealthiest people own and control more wealth and resources than the bottom 4.6 billion. And these 2000 people are overwhelmingly located in “rich” countries. The world did not just fall into existence this way, it had to be made this way. And more crucially, it has had to be actively maintained this way through the constant threat of violence. This violence takes many forms, from overt means like sanctions, coups, interventions, and invasions, to less overt methods like “structural adjustments”, devastating programs forced on countries unable to meet the terms of predatory loans provided by the World Bank and IMF.
In centuries past, the primary way in which wealth flowed from the colonies back to the empire was through the direct expropriation of goods and labor. Over the period of colonial rule in India for example, 45 trillion dollars was extracted from India by the British.
However, since the second half of the 20th century onward, the primary way in which value is siphoned from the periphery is through a more effective but more abstracted means of theft. This theft mainly happens during international trade and is called unequal exchange. This is not simply a theft that just happens, or one that exploited countries aren’t smart enough to realize is happening. It is an arrangement that must be actively maintained. Here’s how it works: undeveloped countries wanting to develop must secure funds through organizations like the IMF and World Bank. However these funds come in the form of predatory loans with terms designed to end in default. Defaults trigger a series of austerity measures, privatization, and elimination of barriers around resource extraction. In order to repay these loans, countries are then forced into a race to the bottom, competing against each other to export all their resources into a rigged global commodities market. In this way, less developed countries are prevented from developing industry and securing self sufficiency, forced to permanently depend on the core countries for high value goods and services as their own resources are looted for pennies on the dollar and wages are driven well below fair value.
Relative high standards of living in the core countries are largely subsidized by this continual siphoning of value from the periphery. Critically, if this flow of value ever began to dry up, it would initiate massive instability in the core countries. The purpose of the US’s worldwide network of 800 foreign military bases thus becomes more apparent as the forceful arm of maintaining this flow at all costs. Unsurprisingly, the global head of this system of modern imperialism is the United States. The remaining members of the imperial block, consisting of Canada, EU, UK, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, both piggyback on this system and help to reinforce it. This system has operated virtually uninterrupted since the end of WW2. But after 80 years, a new model is emerging whose construction is being led by China.
The past 40 years has been marked by one of the most dramatic and peaceful rises of a global superpower in world history, with China going from poorly developed agricultural based economy to the manufacturing center for the whole planet. If China had remained merely a manufacturer of inexpensive goods and a vast pool of cheap labor to be exploited, they’d pose no threat to the current order. Instead, China used the past 40 years to learn from the west, develop their manufacturing base, and use the resulting knowledge to pioneer a new model of development around the globe. This model provides an alternative to the monopoly domination that has characterized the last 70 years, offering instead a development model that fosters long-term partnerships and peaceful mutualism.
Central to this strategy of mutual development is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a globe spanning infrastructure network designed to export the means of development and in turn secure China’s future through interconnection with countries around the world. The BRI is China’s long term bet that the winning strategy in the 21st century will be to foster relations of mutual prosperity by financing the largest infrastructure development in history. A true rising-tide-lifting-all-boats approach.
The threat this poses to the western model of perpetually keeping vast swaths of humanity in indentured servitude is nothing less than existential. And given this threat, the US has gone on the offensive. We currently occupy a period in which nearly every US foreign initiative is laser focused on disrupting the BRI. Recent disruptions in Ethiopia, Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Haiti, Barbados, Solomon Islands, Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, Tonga, Sri Lanka, Laos, Angola, Kenya, Nigeria, Mali (1)(2), Burkina Faso(1)(2), and Kazakhstan have all been linked to the US and have come under attack by the US’s regime change apparatus shortly after signing on to the BRI.
But what does the escalation of a program of economic warfare have to do with the sudden emergence of a global pandemic in China? To answer this, we need to explore the full spectrum of possibilities. Which means wading into the murky swamp of alternative theories on pandemic origins, a topic fraught with wild unsubstantiated speculation. Since it’s entirely rational to reflexively reject the entire topic out of hand to protect one’s sanity, we’ll do our best to stick very close to established facts before venturing into deeper waters.
Three Possibilities
When considering the origins of our global pandemic, there exist three distinct possibilities, only two of which have ever received any coverage in western media.
The first of which, and the one seemingly backed by consensus, is that the virus that emerged in Wuhan in late 2019 had a “natural” origin, hopping from bats to humans, likely via an intermediary species.
The second is that the virus is the man-made result of a laboratory leak, with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) being the most obvious suspect. We’ll explore how a number of genetic peculiarities support some manner of artificial origin.
The third possibility, and the one that has received zero coverage in western media, is that the virus is a bioweapon covertly deployed by the United States against China. Never encountering this third possibility is the default, since any web domain that entertains this possibility is immediately blacklisted from major social media platforms.
Three possibilities. But which is most likely?
Timeline
Due to how chaotic the early months were and how many highly consequential events have been seemingly lost down the memory hole, it’s useful to start by reviewing a timeline of the events preceding the outbreak in Wuhan. It’s also useful for countering all the timelines which strain to depict China’s early response as lackadaisical or deliberately deceptive. Feel free to skip reading this section for now and refer back to it as needed.
December 2017 - NIH lifts funding pause on Gain-of-Function research
July 18, 2019 - Fort Detrick shut down for major safety violations, remains closed for 3 - 4 months
Sept 12, 2019 - Wuhan Institute of Virology public database hacked by unknown attackers and subsequently taken offline
Mid Sept - Oct, 2019 - Flurry of Western media articles about imminent risk of global pandemic
The flurry of articles all reference one of two different orgs that released reports in Sept-Oct warning of pandemic preparedness. Both orgs have strong ties to the Gates foundation (Report 1) (Report 2).
Oct 17-28, 2019 - Military World Games
Almost 10 thousand athletes from over a hundred countries attend the World Military Games in Wuhan, the first international military event to ever be held in China. Included is a team of 172 Americans. America finishes in 35th place behind Tunisia and Lithuania, without winning a single gold medal.
Oct 18, 2019 - Event 201
A “coronavirus pandemic dress rehearsal" is staged in New York City and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the CIA, among others. The event seeks to simulate a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats, to pigs, onto humans, with no prospect of a vaccine within a year, and causing 65-million deaths worldwide at the 18-month point.
2nd week of November 2019 - US intelligence warns of contagion sweeping through Wuhan and alerts NATO, Israel
National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) warns of novel coronavirus sweeping through Wuhan based on wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images.
Dec 1, 2019 - Earliest known case
The earliest known case that has lab confirmation has been traced to December 1, 2019 and has no known association with the Wuhan market.
Dec 24, 2019 - Virus from Wuhan uploaded to GISAID
Global science initiative database for open sharing of genomic data on novel influenza or coronavirus strains.
Dec 31, 2019 - Chinese Health Authorities notify WHO of outbreak
Jan 1, 2020 - Wuhan market is shut down
Jan 10, 2020 - Total of 41 patients identified with novel coronavirus
Cases range from 8 December, 2019 at earliest to Jan 2, 2020. Only 1 death (61 year old man with an abdominal tumor and cirrhosis). No clear evidence yet of human to human transmission.
Jan 23, 2020 - Entire city of Wuhan locks down over night
Wuhan will remain locked down for 76 days straight.
Feb 14, 2020 - COVID-19 / SARS-2 cases in China reach peak
Early March, 2020 - Iran becomes second global epicenter with Iranian officials cases
Weeks after US assassination of Solemani, 10% of Iranian government officials fall sick with SARS-2.
I am sure this will be good —it's all super great — but is there an "American Bioweapon - Part 1" somewhere? That would seem like the best place to start. I did try searching Twitter for it, but I guess that is like searching for a needle they hid somewhere else.