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The US will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package: AP sources
AP ^ | 7/6/23 | AP

Posted on 07/06/2023 7:02:36 PM PDT by hardspunned

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine and is expected to announce on Friday that the Pentagon will send thousands as part of a new military aid package worth up to $800 million for the war effort against Russia, according to people familiar with the decision.

The decision comes despite widespread concerns that the controversial bombs can cause civilian casualties. The Pentagon will provide munitions that have a reduced “dud rate,” meaning there will be far fewer unexploded rounds that can result in unintended civilian deaths.

U.S. officials said Thursday they expect the military aid to Ukraine will be announced on Friday. The weapons will come from Pentagon stocks and will also include Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles and an array of ammunition, such as rounds for howitzers and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, officials said.

Long sought by Ukraine, cluster bombs are weapons that open in the air, releasing submunitions, or “bomblets,” that are dispersed over a large area and are intended to wreak destruction on multiple targets at once.

(Excerpt) Read more at wate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: dictator; dictatorship; escalation; globohomo; ruzzia; ruzzians; sovietunion; ukraine; ussr; walrpigs; war; warpigs
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Another incredibly reckless, desperate NATO escalation. That lovey dovey Putin, Prigozhin, Lukashenko post mutiny relationship positions the Russians in a much more advantageous position if this last escalation breaks the camel’s back.
1 posted on 07/06/2023 7:02:36 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Lefties LOVE cluster bombs now suddenly. Read it on DU.


2 posted on 07/06/2023 7:07:51 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: hardspunned

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Biden extracting Votes / opposition of Impeachment Inquiry.

That’s why he always says it’s not happening- and later - he reverses his position.

Joe Manchin has done it for years


3 posted on 07/06/2023 7:09:12 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano ( May 2023: I Guarantee McCarthy won’t allow Biden Impeachment to move forward )
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To: AnthonySoprano

A favorite tactic of Leftists everywhere.


4 posted on 07/06/2023 7:11:37 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: hardspunned
And those munitions will end up killing more Ukranian peasants, for years after the war ends, (IF this war EVER ends without global nuclear armageddon) than it will kill Russian troops and materials.
5 posted on 07/06/2023 7:11:55 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Levy78

Yeah, it’s Code Blood and Guts this time around.


6 posted on 07/06/2023 7:12:04 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Levy78

That cocaine at the White House goes a long way.


7 posted on 07/06/2023 7:14:04 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: hardspunned

Jaw hooks to be turned South.

...”and they met in a place called.....

....... ARMAGEDDON.” ❌


8 posted on 07/06/2023 7:14:44 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: hardspunned

...and you’re telling Russia this why?


9 posted on 07/06/2023 7:19:06 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: hardspunned

There is no plan, no strategy from our woke, DC Group-think bubble-dwellers.

Any fantastical ideas of collapsing Russia or dethroning Putin disappeared in March 2022

Now its all just ad hoc. There are no adults in charge.


10 posted on 07/06/2023 7:26:20 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: hardspunned

This is Biden’s plan to cover up for the Biden Crime Family…. They’ll just start a nuclear war


11 posted on 07/06/2023 7:28:58 PM PDT by rivercat
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To: hardspunned

As the USA sinks into rhe west as a failed nation the Nazi thug counts worthless largesse donated by infamous crooked,liar Biden


12 posted on 07/06/2023 7:34:32 PM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: hardspunned

Incredibly wreck less.
Biden must want WW3.


13 posted on 07/06/2023 7:34:53 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: Levy78
Lefties LOVE cluster bombs now suddenly. Read it on DU.

Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," an ode to Zeepers.

14 posted on 07/06/2023 7:36:12 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: hardspunned

And today I saw my FIRST REPORT of UKRAINIAN USE OF A CHEMICAL WEAPON.

That report may or may not be true and, if true, it doesn’t mean it was sanctioned by the Ukrainian government. It could have been a “one-off” improvised toxic chemical dispersal device.


15 posted on 07/06/2023 7:45:17 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: PGR88

I think there is a Russian plan. I’ve said for a year that there will come a time when Russia will have had enough of NATO supplied and directed weapons killing Russians. When that time comes they will strike into Ukraine and Eastern Poland where the weapons staging areas are. I think the Russians will do terrible damage to these targets. The Russians will take enough of additional Ukraine to coordinate an overall defense incorporating Belarus territory and assets and Wagner. They will do this under the cover of the Belorussian and Donbas nuclear guarantee zones. There will be your 1000 mile Checkpoint Charlie. Or the traitors and dipshits running this in DC will take it nuclear by going on the NATO offensive.


16 posted on 07/06/2023 7:48:12 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Very dangerous! Biden keeps escalating the situation over and over again.


17 posted on 07/06/2023 7:50:05 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: hardspunned

https://mises.org/library/war-profits

Wars and rumors of wars.


18 posted on 07/06/2023 7:50:08 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: rivercat

I think half of Congress was in on this money.

Greece would know.


19 posted on 07/06/2023 7:56:22 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: hardspunned

Great, escalate the proxy war with Russia.


20 posted on 07/06/2023 8:03:58 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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