If we can't think outside the box of the Dem party, then we are already doomed. Apparently dem-aligned "progressives" are ok with war crimes now?
AOC announced endorsement of Biden "given the field" on the VERY SAME day Biden admin announces US will send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
Worldwide, civilians represent 97% of all cluster munition casualties, according to a report in August by the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor. Unexploded "bomblets" will kill and maim children decades after the war. To this day, vietnam war era UXO (unexploded ordinance) is killing children and civilians in Laos and elsewhere. 20,000 in Laos since the war ended, and still counting.
What makes diabolical UXO especially deadly for children is that they often look like toys or balls.
"The US government’s congressional research service recently estimated that, at the current rate of clearance, it would take another 100 years to make Laos UXO-free."
Many US allies have banned the use of cluster munitions long ago. The world was making good progress relegating these things to the dust bin of history.
Am i the only one who thinks expanding their use like is insane? Is this an admission that the war in Ukraine is going so badly that we now need to start propping it up with war crimes? Does the word "progressive" have any actual semantic meaning left?
Thank God the Green Party exists.
#GreenParty #AOC #Sanders #Biden #ClusterBombs #WarCrimes #GreenParty
@schruti (1) the actual dud rate is far higher than the advertised rate. (2) now we have two sides killing and maiming future children instead of just one side. How is this better? (3) are you assuming if the west uses cluster bombs that will end the war sooner? Instead of just dragging it out longer? The west does not have a great track record of winning every war it fights in.
@mettaben (1) I took that into account. (2) It is better because (3) yes, it will end the war.
@schruti maybe you are right and maybe you are wrong but how can you be so sure? The front is directly next to Russia. This is Russia's direct sphere of influence. Doesn't it seem just a little optimistic that Russia will be defeated by cluster bombs when nothing else has worked so far either? I mean, maybe we could try nerve gas next. That would save lives, right?
@mettaben Russia won’t be defeated in a few moths. I think it depends on many things:
First and most obviously on the prompt delivery of weapons to Ukraine, which indeed show some success. Ukraine wins back some of their territory. Also, the morale among Russian soldiers is low.
Apart from weapons, the RF is weakened by sanctions, by loss of working people, and of course by the corruption.
It is a pity that the babushkas and many other Russiand still support the war.
@mettaben That sounds like a good reason to use US produced cluster bombs against the RF, stopping them to use cluster bombs with an UXO rate tweilve times as high.