Geopolitics
The Toxin of Hypocrisy: How Western 'Biodefense' Masks Imperial Insecurity
Toxins, both naturally occurring and weaponized by malicious actors like nation-states, pose a persistent threat to national security, with the 2026 assassination of Alexei Navalny by Russia using a frog-derived neurotoxin starkly illustrating the grim reality of modern toxin warfare. This tragedy exposes the West's fragmented and hypocritical security priorities, where it mobilizes vast resources against imagined threats from the Global South while its own tools of assassination and imperial overreach create profound global insecurity.
