Biden wants to send cluster munitions because the US is running out of ammo 🔎 Analysis by SimonMarksFSN
, Biden went further, conceding that his decision had been “very difficult… it took me a while to be convinced to do it”. He noted that the US is not a signatory to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions that bans the transfer, production and stockpiling of weapons that – in the treaty’s words – “cause unacceptable harm to civilians”. Neither Russia nor Ukraine has ever signed up to the Convention either.
The claim that Ukraine is running out of ammunition turns out to only be half the story. In the weeds of, it became clear that it’s actually the Americans who are running short of supplies. “We will not leave Ukraine defenceless at any point in this conflict,” said Sullivan, in a further explanation of Biden’s controversial announcement.Nineteen Democrats in the House of Representatives
. Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon and former Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont said the weaponry’s supply would come at “an unsupportable moral and political price”.
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