US Approves Cluster Bombs for Ukraine

[Zincwarrior]

Looks like cluster bomb munitions have been approved for shipment to Ukraine. I imagine this will primarily be in the form of artillery and rocket artillery/SAMs. This has got to tick off our Russobot compatriots. You know who you are!

US plans to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine

The White House defends the move, while acknowledging that such unexploded ordnance can harm civilians.

www.bbc.com

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By Madeline Halpert
BBC News, New York

The US is planning to send Ukraine a cluster munitions package to help in its counteroffensive against Russia, US media reports.
Ukraine has been asking for the weapons for months amid an ammunition shortage.
Cluster munitions - which are banned by more than 100 countries - are a class of weapons that contain multiple explosive bomblets called submunitions.
The Biden administration is expected to announce the package on Friday, the BBC's US partner CBS News reports.
US officials had reportedly been hesitant to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions as they can kill indiscriminately over a wide area, threatening civilians. The US has a stockpile of these cluster bombs, which were first developed during World War II.
The munitions are controversial because of their high failure rates, meaning unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years and possibly detonate later on.

US law prohibits the transfer of cluster munitions with bomblet failure rates higher than 1% - meaning more than 1% of the bomblets in the weapon do not explode - but President Joe Biden is able to bypass this rule.
Defence Department officials told reporters on Thursday the Biden administration was considering sending cluster munitions with a failure rate lower than 2.35%.

 

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[Oddball]

Looks like cluster bomb munitions have been approved for shipment to Ukraine. I imagine this will primarily be in the form of artillery and rocket artillery/SAMs. This has got to tick off our Russobot compatriots. You know who you are!

US plans to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine

The White House defends the move, while acknowledging that such unexploded ordnance can harm civilians.

www.bbc.com

Nothing like cheering on the use of munitions that have been banned in over 100 nations.

 

[1srelluc]

Yeah, I posted of it yesterday.....It seems the so-called spring offensive has ground to a halt.

 

[JGalt]

Looks like cluster bomb munitions have been approved for shipment to Ukraine. I imagine this will primarily be in the form of artillery and rocket artillery/SAMs. This has got to tick off our Russobot compatriots. You know who you are!

US plans to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine

The White House defends the move, while acknowledging that such unexploded ordnance can harm civilians.

www.bbc.com

That's great, I like cluster bombs. Except now Russia will have a reason to use their own.

Now tell me, how long have you been seeing these imaginary "Russobots" behind every post on a discussion board? Psychiatrists do have drugs you can take for hallucinations, ya know. You might want to check in to that.

 

[hadit]

And my predictions of being inevitably drawn more and more into this conflict continue to come true. The only way we avoid our troops getting killed over there is for Russia to completely fall apart before Quid Pro is replaced next year.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

That's what we need on the border. Our border.

 

[TNHarley]

Looks like cluster bomb munitions have been approved for shipment to Ukraine. I imagine this will primarily be in the form of artillery and rocket artillery/SAMs. This has got to tick off our Russobot compatriots. You know who you are!

US plans to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine

The White House defends the move, while acknowledging that such unexploded ordnance can harm civilians.

www.bbc.com

Yayyy more civilian deaths!

 

[TNHarley]

Nothing like cheering on the use of munitions that have been banned in over 100 nations.

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Exactly! And part of the reason is because they fail to explode at the right time, leaving them sitting like land mines killing innocent people.
Probably why people like biden and the OP approve of this. POS warmongers.

 

[MarcATL]

I wonder when will Putin cease and desist from his illegal Ukraine invasion?

 

[mudwhistle]

Looks like cluster bomb munitions have been approved for shipment to Ukraine. I imagine this will primarily be in the form of artillery and rocket artillery/SAMs. This has got to tick off our Russobot compatriots. You know who you are!

US plans to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine

The White House defends the move, while acknowledging that such unexploded ordnance can harm civilians.

www.bbc.com

They need to approve them for crowd control during rioting and looting.

 

[hadit]

I wonder when will Putin cease and desist from his illegal Ukraine invasion?

He won't, not without being forced to do so.

 

[TNHarley]

Children, civilians killed by cluster bombs – DW – 09/01/2016

Cluster bombs killed or maimed over 400 people in 2015, and one third of victims are children, an international watchdog has reported. Activists cited "compelling evidence" the Russians used the munitions in Syria.

www.dw.com

According to the latest Coalition report, cluster bombs killed or injured 417 people last year, with children making up one third of the casualties.

Civilian casualties rise, despite progress in eliminating cluster bombs

Casualties caused by lethal cluster munitions continued to increase in 2020, despite progress in efforts to eliminate these weapons, a UN-backed civil society report said on Wednesday.

news.un.org

Children represented nearly half (44 per cent) of all casualties where the age was known, and a quarter were women and girls, who in 2020 were less likely to survive an attack.
Many fail to detonate, leaving a trail of explosive remnants and submunitions that threaten lives and make farm land off-limits, creating barriers to socio-economic development
civilians remain the primary victims of cluster munitions at the time of the attacks and after the conflict has ended and accounted for all casualties recorded in 2020.

Fuck you war mongering pieces of shit

 

[MarcATL]

He won't, not without being forced to do so.

Well, I look forward to the day whenever that happens

 

[Zincwarrior]

Nothing like cheering on the use of munitions that have been banned in over 100 nations.

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But not us baby. If its good enough for the Germans in July 1944, its good enough for the Russians in July 2023.

 

[Oddball]

Exactly! And part of the reason is because they fail to explode at the right time, leaving them sitting like land mines killing innocent people.
Probably why people like biden and the OP approve of this. POS warmongers.

40% dud rate.

 

[JGalt]

I wonder when will Putin cease and desist from his illegal Ukraine invasion?

Probably as long as it took us to run the Taliban out of Afghanistan.

Have you blown your wad already, or are you up for another 20-year war?

 

[Oddball]

But not us baby. If its good enough for the Germans in July 1944, its good enough for the Russians in July 2023.

Eat shit, Bushbot POS.

 

[hadit]

Well, I look forward to the day whenever that happens

And we get our people killed if it doesn't happen soon.

 

[MarcATL]

And we get our people killed if it doesn't happen soon.

Which people?