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[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This reminds me of the deeply concerning admission of why Ukraine got the banned cluster bombs so quickly:

The US had them stored in Europe, with allies already...despite 120 countries swearing them off, many with a signed treaty banning their use, and all of our most notable European allies refusing them and condemning the US action. Apparently one EU allies is an outlier. John Kirby, national sec council spokesman, implied supplying them to Ukraine was just a temporary bending of the rules, "to help bridge the gap as we ramp up production of normal ... artillery shells."

The problem is the Ukraine is already littered with mine fields from decades of civil war and the cluster-bombs result in the same, unexploded ordinance that kills civilians for generations after the war.

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

it might be good to make ukraine a minefield. Like we want to build a wall between USA and Mexico but a wall is easy to climb, better to make a minefield.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ukraine has been a minefield since 2015...It has been a constant humanitarian crisis talked about for nearly a decade... until the US started publicly pushing a new Ukrainian offensive back around 2018/2019 a couple years ago, causing the media to have immediate amnesia ......yet I see the US news stations lying about it, just this week, to blame Russia for Ukrainians embarrassingly loosing millions worth of Western donated tanks to their own mine fields (most Ukrainians stopped fighting many years ago and the majority have been mercenaries for years).