On: Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine

[lowkey]

One hypothesis making the rounds on Twitter is that Putin’s bombing campaign was targeting US funded biolabs in Ukraine [0][1] which the Russians have previously complained about [2]

[0] https://twitter.com/Manifestor4/status/1497162095762288672/p...

[1] https://twitter.com/jqkennedy17/status/1496793895040008192/p...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/russia-china-nikolai-patrushev-vlad...

[jacquesm → lowkey]

I don't buy it. That didn't need an invasion prepared for many months. It's spending billions to do something that could be done for millions.

[lowkey → jacquesm]

I agree, bombing labs from the air doesn't warrant boots on the ground, so it's obviously not the full explanation. I shared the hypothesis because grandparent comment asked what other reason there could be - this was one.