We should find out if any of the labs involved here were part of the DoD's DTRA program (Defense Threat Reduction Agency). This agency operated some ~340 biological labs across eastern Europe and Africa, all in dirt-poor, 3rd world countries, with minimal legal oversight. Officially, the DoD was using DoD dollars for civilian research on local diseases. Anyone who has ever listened to a DoD hearing where they ask Congress for cash or read a grant application or defense contract will immediately recognize that the DoD doesn't spend a dime unless you can find some weaselly way or other to claim that your program or project increases the lethality of the military in some way. Civilian biological research on infectious disease is done by the CDC, quite literally the world's premier agencies for such things.

Theory: Someone's cleaning up the US biological weapons labs, and DoD's going to find any excuse to use the military to blow up the evidence.

Why else would you spend so much money in Ukraine unless you were worried about the Russians getting their hands on documents that would prove an illegal biological weapons program was being run on their doorstep? Why else would we give a damn about Sudan when we've got Mexican drug cartels, Russia, and China to deal with? Because the biological weapons factories are a bigger threat to "Our Democracy(R)." Of course, I'll wait for more evidence of course, because we don't make definitive statements without hard facts to back it up, but I'm starting to find threads that might explain the inexplicable behaviors we're seeing out of the Derp State.