The warning that Russia planned to standardize mass graves could have prompted Congress to act sooner and more robustly to support Ukraine pre-invasion.
"I think [the administration] missed an opportunity to sound the alarm at an earlier stage and in a more clear fashion, that they could have done that in December, as opposed to the weeks immediately prior to the invasion," James Anderson, former deputy undersecretary of defense for policy under President Donald Trump, told Fox News Digital.
Some experts argued that the size of mass graves"are thinkable only for a nuclear war or a pandemic." Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, referred to the standardization as one of the"signposts on the way to the apocalypse." The standards went into effect on Feb. 1, 2022, just weeks before the invasion started, but residents in Russia heard about the standardization initiative"in the early days of December.
Morrell said the bulk of speculation related to conspiracy theories, such as the graves serving to bury vaccinated individuals or to cover up cases of Siberian anthrax. Others believed it was a case of corruption meant to redistribute the funeral market.
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