Ukraine: The Latest - Kyiv deploys cluster munitions "to great effect"
Ukraine: The Latest - Kyiv deploys cluster munitions "to great effect"
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I thought we were against cluster bombs? maybe only in southeast asia?
For europe, yes, for America, Ukraine, Russia and more. Not at all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions
But what was banned was the use of incendiary devices. Which russia used against a city with civilians.
I've searched through a few of the countries that didn't sign the convention and they either manufacture or have bought large stocks of cluster bombs (India, Argentina, US, and Brazil). The trend seems self evident.
I still don't get why we are trying to justify unloading our backlog of dangerous cluster bombs onto Ukraine soil. Blood is on the hands of the lobbyists that wanted to clear out the warehouses full of cluster bombs. We can make more munitions that we have been sending, which will be less of a hazard to Ukrainian farmers.