You keep calling them war crime weapons, they aren’t, and Russia is already using them as much as they want or can.
“The cluster munition attack with the highest known civilian casualties occurred on April 8, 2022, when Russia launched a Tochka-U ballistic missile equipped with a cluster munition warhead at a crowded train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk as hundreds of people were trying to leave the area. A detailed Human Rights Watch investigation found that the attack killed at least 58 civilians and injured over 100 others.
Is using them a war crime?
The use of cluster bombs itself does not violate international law, but using them against civilians can be a violation. As in any strike, determining a war crime requires looking at whether the target was legitimate and if precautions were taken to avoid civilian casualties.
“The part of international law where this starts playing [a role], though, is indiscriminate attacks targeting civilians,” Human Rights Watch’s associate arms director Mark Hiznay told The Associated Press news agency. “So that’s not necessarily related to the weapons, but the way the weapons are used.”
“Hundreds of cluster munition attacks by Russian forces have been documented, reported or alleged since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) said.
The CMC’s annual report on the use of such weapons around the world found that Ukrainian forces appear to have also used cluster munitions at least three times, adding that there was no evidence of Kyiv acquiring cluster munitions from other countries this year.
“Russia’s extensive use of internationally banned cluster munitions in Ukraine demonstrates a blatant disregard for human life, humanitarian principles and legal norms,” said Mary Wareham, one of the report’s co-editors.”
“The United Nations Convention of Cluster Munitions, which was adopted in 2008 and went into force in 2010, “prohibits all use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions.” Nearly 125 nations have ratified and signed onto the convention.”
However:
Much of the world has banned the use of these weapons through the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), which also prohibits the stockpiling, production and transfer of them. Though 123 nations have joined that convention, the United States, Ukraine, Russia and 71 other countries have not.
“The use of cluster bombs itself does not violate international law, but using them against civilians can be a violation.”
Anything can be a violation of something depending on who you talk to. Right now it’s around 125 that want them stopped by calling a war crime with over 70 that have support their use.
Use of weapons or theories like these has been in practice for many years when it comes to civilian casualties. A perfect example is our Hanoi bombing tactics in Vietnam using carpet bombing. We, and other allied nations did the same thing to Germany and Italy in WW II.
You can’t stop the use of overkill by trying to stop the existence of the weapons. Example there is the gun control laws the liberals have been regurgitating back at the US for a few lifetimes. Weapons don’t kill people, people kill people.
Does defining and trying to cut off the supply stop it? It hasn’t. Making it against the law to drink alcohol during prohibition didn’t either. If they can’t get the weapons, they’ll make them or buy them from countries that do. And in the US, has negative press stopped the killing of people with guns, some legal and some not? Nope. You can buy a gun on many street corners in many places across the US. Some of them supplied by the US government...fast and furious, Obama and the DOJ.
The people that use them have got to make the concerted effort to decide not to. So our sending them over there is not the problem. It is the use of them by both countries, neither of which signed on to their banning, are using. The two countries have to decide not to use them and they are increasing their desire using as we sit. They have to decide not to have a war either. But Biden is assisting the extending of the conflict.
So if Biden spent as much time and expense trying to get the Ukraine and Russia to the tables to straighten this out it would be the only way to stop it without putting our country into danger if he already hasn’t. Instead, he sends more weapons over to perpetuate it one way while supporting the other country with trade to add to their coffers the other way. That won’t stop it but will support it, both ways. And you can’t blame one and not the other for the use of the weapons as they both are doing it. Numbers mean nothing to the people in charge of those two countries. And numbers mean nothing to the feds here as they are not their numbers but tools for re-election possibilities.
It won’t stop until both sides raise the white flag and talk. And that’s a two way street. And the US should never have got our keysters into it to begin with. Not our war.
wy69