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Biden to may send thousands of cluster bombs to Ukraine despite them being against US law and banned in 120 countries - a year after Jen Psaki said using them 'would potentially be a war crime'
2023-07-08
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Now we're talkin'!
  • The White House has since December been weighing up providing cluster munitions to Ukraine to help them in their war against the Russian invasion

  • The weapons are known to cause grievous injury to civilians, especially children: they are banned in more than 100 countries, but not the U.S. and Ukraine

  • Five days into the war Biden's then-press secretary Jen Psaki responded to reports of Russia using cluster munitions and accused them of war crimes
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  Ref #5: I'm assuming DV, we can skip the Shinola ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-07-08 09:28  

#6  Military oath: "...that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...."

Yeah, right.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-07-08 09:27  

#5  Oh Jesus this article is so full of shit.

The US "Law" is from congress ordering the military to find alternate weapons systems.

There is a memorandum from the DoD that after Jan. 1st 2019 that any system with a failure rate over 1% needs to get theater commander approval to use them. AKA if North Korea was overrunning the South and US positions, once approval was given the commander can then launch them on the communist troops.

The munitions can be legally used by anyone, including Russia so long as civilian areas are not targeted. Military base: Legal Civilian city: Not legal. Russia did the latter which is why it was a war crime. Ukraine would most likely stick to areas that only have Russians.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-07-08 09:24  

#4  White House Claims Ukraine Will Be Careful with American-Provided Cluster Bombs
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-08 06:58  

#3  'The US and Ukraine don't need to stoop to Putin's level': Democrats are left horrified by Biden sending cluster bombs to Ukraine after Jake Sullivan admitted they create risk of KILLING civilians
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-08 06:21  

#2  When does the Crime Family follow the law ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-07-08 03:24  

#1  Biden claims it was 'difficult' decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine: President claims Zelensky NEEDS them as he is 'running out of ammunition' in U-turn after White House said it would spark World War Three
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-08 00:10  

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