Biden Defends Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
Biden Defends Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
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Biden Defends Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine - scheerpost.com
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They're only War Crimes when someone the US doesn't like does it. /s
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Bob Dylan's "Masters of War", anyone?
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Bidet says what is he is told to say, and often even struggles with that
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Yay!
I hope they help drive the murdering Russian imperialists from Ukraine.
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Just another person bringing love, peace, freedom through the judicious use of 🤜
It's not a very loving or peaceful message to support this kind of weapon.
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Speaking to CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria on Friday, President Biden said he needed to send cluster bombs because Ukraine and the US are running out of ammunition. “This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it,” he said.
the FY2023 presidential budget request was $842 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
not enough for ammo, apparently.
The pentagon would not survive an audit. It's unfathomable that with $800 billion they can't afford to replenish ammunition supplies.
Cost is not the immediate issue: time is. The ammo required takes time to manufacture. Russia is not going to wait.
Whether that justifies cluster ammunition no idea. An audit would be enlightening for sure. Unfortunately, none of that results in ammo where it's needed right now.
Makes sense when you see the US military as a way to extract wealth from it's vassals and the global south and as an excuse not to solve the US' domestic problems. This is just what peak capitalism looks like. I hope. If this isn't the peak, we're all fucked.