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The Wikipedia example is, "and you are lynching Negroes". During the Stalin era, praise for the quality of any aspect of US life prompted the rejoinder "Yes, but they lynch Blacks, don't they? That was never not acknowledged, it's just completely offtopic, and therefore Whataboutism.

Because if they're substially related, it's a valid analogy.

Chornobyl Ukraine’s regulatory authority said work that began on the evening of 10 March had succeeded in repairing one section, but off-site electrical power was still down, indicating there was still damage in other places. The repair efforts would continue despite the difficult situation...

@Agent K and @FatPhil (and anybody else), I'd really like to see some current examples, mostly because I can't think of any off the top of my head. Whataboutism has a structure of "A accuses B of bad thing 1, B counters by accusing A of bad thing 2", with things 1 and 2 being only superficially...

How likely is it for the integrated image filters (digital zoom) to turn a small round object into a small straight-edged object?

The approach taken was to give the people with the know-how jobs, so they wouldn't be tempted to take their dangerous knowledge elsewhere. This requires transparency to distinguish this peaceful project from post-WW2 efforts like Operation Overcast, Operation Paperclip, or Operation...

This news reminded me of this thread about the Ukrainian claim that Belarus is willing, but unable, to join the invasion. I'd believe this item more if Belarus had not denied it, or if there was some evidence of the damage.

I don't. (pls dont strawman)

Here's a new weird piece of news supporting the narrative that Russia would like Belarus to actively join the war, but fails to get results. As before, the sole source is Ukraine, so maybe it's bunk? 1. Russian aircraft likely conducted an attempted false-flag attack on Belarusian territory on...

I think he's splitting hairs. Yes, research labs won't be able to produce pathogens in large volumes and package them for use in munitions. Yes, each pathogen typically needs a specific environment/cell culture to reproduce it, and labs wouldn't have that ready to go when they don't need it...

Or you open it in a private tab. “There is no place that still has any of the sort of infrastructure for researching or producing biological weapons,” Mr. Pope said. “Scientists being scientists, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of these strain collections in some of these laboratories still...

On March 7 and 8, ISW predicted an assault on Kiev "in the coming 24-96 hours", on March 9 they reported the assault had begun "on a smaller scale and in a more ad hoc manner than expected", and now they're saying that "the likelihood is increasing that Ukrainian forces could fight to a...

The basic principles of war propaganda (Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre) is a monograph by Anne Morelli published in 2001. It has not been translated into English. The subtitle recommends its "usability in case of cold war, hot war and lukewarm war" (Utilisables en cas de guerre...

In the descriptions of the conversion, I've not seen that mentioned, and I couldn't imagine what that would entail. Weapon-specific problems would be how to mass-produce, store, preserve, and deliver the diseases. To my mind, a "biodefense" lab must think about how to make bioweapons (and...

The updates from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) cover all plants, and the issues are similar. It'd be a hassle to split the post, and I don't see any advantage to it. Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant...

From Wednesday: So far, WHO has verified 18 attacks on health facilities, health workers and ambulances, including 10 deaths and 16 injuries. These attacks deprive whole communities of health care. More than 2 million people have left Ukraine, and WHO is supporting neighbouring countries to...

I don't think that. But I do wonder, if these labs have conducted peaceful research in the past 30 years, why Nuland is concerned that it may be falling into Russian hands. I'd be more concerned to prevent an artillery or missile strike on these facilities.

At the end of the Cold War, remnants of the Soviet Union’s biological weapon complex presented a significant threat to U.S. and international security. As part of the U.S. government’s broader Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) addressed...

So in the USSR, these were bioweapon labs, and now that the Department of Defense is partnered with them, they're biodefense labs. While natural evolution of infectious agents and the emergence of new infectious diseases remain the major threat to health security, molecular engineering makes it...

"The US has a long history of using chemical weapons, most notably in the Iran-Iraq war by the US-backed regime of Saddam Hussein." I'm not really ok with that kind of logic. I don't think the US is claiming evidence that Russia even has biological or chemical munitions right now?