Commentary: With President Joe Biden’s decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine, that political environment has changed for the worse.
A man riding a bicycle on July 8, 2023, pulls along the bike of his wife, who was killed by a cluster bomb in Lyman in Ukraine's Donetsk region., a treaty that “prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions.”
The United States has a huge stockpile of cluster munitions — 4.7 million containing hundreds of millions of bomblets — that it is dusting off to deliver to Ukraine after a “difficult decision” by President Joe Biden. Human Rights Watch also “found that Ukrainian cluster munition rocket attacks on Russian-controlled areas in and around the city of Izium in eastern Ukraine during 2022 caused many casualties among Ukrainian civilians.”In announcing the U.S.’ decision to send these horrific weapons of war to Ukraine, Biden’s national security mouthpiece,
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