US cluster munitions will bring more pain and death to Donbass civilians, and Washington doesn’t care
Posted by: John Phoenix
Kiev will use its newly received weapons to target residential areas, just as it has for the past nine years
-by Eva K Bartlett
August 1, 2023, RT.com
The recent US decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine is immoral, unethical, and criminal. We’ve already seen the horrific results of the use of such weapons – civilians mutilated and murdered (often decades later) in Iraq and Southeast Asia, for example, and in Lebanon.
In addition to the ethical reasons not to send these weapons to Ukraine, there are pragmatic reasons why, from a military perspective. They are pointless for Ukraine, in spite of Western promises that they will “do more damage across a larger area than standard unitary artillery shells by releasing bom...