Debunking the fact-checkers. DoD does fund outside the US - noted in this document from 2015. Selected excerpts - quite the read.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/nuke/R43143.pdf

The Evolution of Cooperative Threat Reduction: Issues for Congress

Updated November 23, 2015

Nuclear Smuggling

Bioweapons

The CTR program has built a secure Central Reference Laboratories (CRL) for pathogen collections in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and is constructing a CRL in Azerbaijan. Currently, the CTR program has completed upgrades at39 “Secured Labs” in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. DOD continues to support upgrades and training at these facilities.89

Page 47: The ISTC headquarters have moved to Nazarbayev University inAlmaty, Kazakhstan. The United States provides support through the ISTC to the Biological Weapons Redirection Program

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January Kazakhstan activity - making more sense.

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/01/10/did-russia-seize-the-us-bio-weapons-lab-in-kazakhstan/

Did Russia Seize the US Bio-Weapons Lab in Kazakhstan?

Report: U.S. military labs secretly develop biological weapons in Kazakhstan

By Vaughn Klingenberg -

January 10, 2022

http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/International_3/Russia-is-urged-to-withdraw-troops-from-Kazakhstan-while-its-infrastructure-is-under-Russian-special-forces-control_printer.shtml

Russia is urged to withdraw troops from Kazakhstan while its infrastructure is under Russian special forces control

By Andrii Lisitcin, InformNapalm, 14/1/22