CNN:
Ukrainian officials have been pushing the US to provide the munitions since last year, arguing that they would provide more ammunition for Western-provided artillery and rocket systems, and help narrow Russia’s numerical superiority in artillery.
But the US had been reluctant to provide them because of the risk they could pose to civilians, and because some key US allies, including the UK, France and Germany, are signatories to a ban on cluster munitions – weapons that scatter “bomblets” across large areas that can fail to explode on impact and can pose a long-term risk to anyone who encounters them, similar to landmines.
The doomed Ukrainian spring counteroffensive is failing, so we are going to double down like lunatics and up the ante with cluster bombs. No one on our side is going to have a problem with it, just like no one on our side is going to have a problem with Ukraine’s use of banned land mines.
ArklahomBoy 