Geopolitics
Pentagon Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Despite Depletion of NATO Munitions Stocks
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"I think this shows the point at which the United States and NATO are at in terms of being able to supply Ukraine. The fact that basically Europe and the United States munitions supplies are at such a low level that this use of cluster munitions is going to go forward regardless of the controversy over it, regardless over the legality of it, the morality of it or just the sense of it."
Military analyst Matthew reveals that the Pentagon's decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine stems from critically depleted munitions stocks in both Europe and the United States. He explains that cluster munitions have high dud rates, leaving unexploded submunitions that endanger civilians and soldiers for decades, noting that over half of American casualties from explosive events in the first Iraq War came from U.S. cluster munitions. Matthew argues this decision demonstrates the futility of continued weapons shipments and that only negotiations can end the war.
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