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Blinken: Ukraine Would Have Been ‘Defenseless’ without U.S. Cluster Bombs
Breitbart ^ | 07/11/2023 | Pam Key

Posted on 07/11/2023 10:58:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that President Joe Biden’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine was needed because the nation would have been “defenseless” without it.

Mitchell said, “You have talked about NATO’s unity. There is disagreement over the cluster munitions, clearly. More than 100 nations have banned them. We knew that this counteroffensive was coming. By many reports, it’s bogged down, it’s difficult, the Russians are dug in. So why didn’t we earlier supply enough conventional munitions so that they would have enough ammunition without resorting to these deadly weapons?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: blinken; clusterbombs; defenseless; ukraine
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Please tell me he is not serious with that statement.... The crazy part is people will believe him
1 posted on 07/11/2023 10:58:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Russia will escalate with a weapon much more deadly than cluster bombs.


2 posted on 07/11/2023 11:00:58 AM PDT by AU72
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To: AU72

“Russia will escalate with a weapon much more deadly than cluster bombs.”

Count on it.


3 posted on 07/11/2023 11:04:02 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

“the nation would have been “defenseless” without it.”

Weird.

Within the last 2 weeks CJCS Milley said Ukraine had everything they needed to have a successful counteroffensive and drive Russia out.

Seems like the US government is even lying to itself.

Which is not surprising since every word uttered out of Washington DC, from any and every dept is a lie.


4 posted on 07/11/2023 11:06:54 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/10/turkey-cold-war-cluster-bombs-ukraine/


5 posted on 07/11/2023 11:11:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pence believes. Send the Abrams tanks with some 155 cluster thingees. That’ll do the trick. 🤔💃🕺


6 posted on 07/11/2023 11:11:53 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Mariner

I thought the Russians were defeated and the Ukrainians were winning. Was I confused or just listen and watching the Western media?


7 posted on 07/11/2023 11:12:15 AM PDT by RowdyRoo (There only three types of people, those that can count and those that can't.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

END THE WAR NOW!


8 posted on 07/11/2023 11:13:02 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Blinken said, “Andrea, this comes down to a simple proposition. Every step along the way we worked to make sure Ukraine has what it needs whether it needs it to deal with the Russian aggression and to pursue the counteroffensive to retake territory. But what’s happened is this, and this is why the decision on the cluster munitions, the stockpiles around the world and in Ukraine of the unitary munitions, not the cluster munitions, were running low, about to be depleted. And so, the hard but necessary choice to give them the cluster munitions amounted to this, if we didn’t do it, we don’t do it, then they will run out of ammunition. If they run out of ammunition, then they will be defenseless.”

Two months ago our Ukie flacks told US Russians were fighting with shovels while using refrigerators for missile parts. They also told us Putin has cancer and is on his death bed. They were spreading NATO propaganda to hide the fact that the Ukraine is getting beaten to a pulp.

9 posted on 07/11/2023 11:14:24 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whining that cluster munitions are “deadly” in sort of odd. Do people think thermobaric explosives, napalm, conventional bombs and shells, HIMARS, cruise missiles, rockets, rpgs, etc. are not deadly?


10 posted on 07/11/2023 11:14:31 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America has never had this pitiful, disgusting and dangerous to our very survival level of “leadership”. They are effectively destroying America and they love it.


11 posted on 07/11/2023 11:15:15 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Yep

The Biden Administration is a complete disaster.


12 posted on 07/11/2023 11:19:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Chewbarkah

My understanding is that they will wind up killing innocent civilians later on. (Ordinance not exploded on first impact)


13 posted on 07/11/2023 11:21:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NATO is out of ammo.


14 posted on 07/11/2023 11:25:51 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Cluster munitions are effective when you have an assembled concentration of manpower. The RF isn’t fighting that way in order to mitigate potential loss from precision munitions. UKF needs 155mm high explosive shells to attack trenches, hardened shelters, armored vehicles and artillery pieces. Cluster munitions cannot do these jobs.

The main point here is that there are no more 155mm shells to give.


15 posted on 07/11/2023 11:31:16 AM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
To a certain extent, Blinky is telling the truth. Ukraine is totally dependent upon US hard cash dollars and weapons stockpiles to float the country economically and militarily.

The minute we stop cash transfers to Ukraine, their economy collapses.

The minute we stop arms flows to prop up the Ukraine , their military gets overrun and they have a complete military collapse. .

We have sent up to 30% of our pre Ukraine invasion weapons stockpiles of critical weapons to Ukraine .

These weapons cannot be replaced in the near term and the few remaining responsible military leaders are pushing back saying no mas, we have no more to give without degrading our reserves.

So they are looking under the couch cushions to find weapons stockpiles of anything in inventory that we have enough of to spare some so they can ship to Ukraine .

We seem to have a surplus of the Left's hated cluster munitions to send to Ukraine and we are sending them because it's about all we have left to spare.

16 posted on 07/11/2023 11:32:04 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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Please pay attention!

Zelensky is defenseless without the cluster bombs! Which he still hasn't yet received, 500 plus days into this mess.

The counter offensive shows Ukraine winning / losing.

Intelligence agencies say Russia is winning / losing.

In earnest, the US government says things are going well / things are not going well.

Biden says we're are running out of ammunition / not running out of ammunition.

I hope that helps....

17 posted on 07/11/2023 11:39:30 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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I thought the Ukranians were kicking Russia’s tail? How do they go from that to “defenseless”?

Not that I have a problem with seeing Russia get a foot in the rear by anyone they have invaded, but the propaganda coming from Ukraine, Russia, and the US is nearly incomprehensible.


18 posted on 07/11/2023 11:40:16 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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--- "The Biden Administration is a complete disaster."

Yes, but at least the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a total strategic success. < sniff, cocaine, sniff, little girls' hair >

And don't forget, no mean tweets.... Because Admiral Richard / Rachel is advising....

19 posted on 07/11/2023 11:43:18 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Huskrrrr

Putin will not tolerate using that weapon and his troops and civilians and will retaliate aggressively.


20 posted on 07/11/2023 11:44:29 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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