Long after the war stops and Joe Biden is pushing up daisies, children will be getting blown up by cluster bombs. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.org:
Dumping tonnes of this particularly cruel explosive on the Ukrainian army seems like a good sticking plaster for what is in reality a gaping wound.
The news that NATO, or rather that the U.S., has decided to offload its aging stock of cluster bombs shouldn’t really come as a surprise to those following the Ukraine War. From day one, western elites have been confused about what they are doing, what their objectives are and what the end game should be. NATO has shifted the goalposts so many times, in terms of unwritten rules, that it is becoming quite hard to see a clear picture. Even Stoltenberg himself seems flustered at a press conference when he is tackled on the nuts ‘n bolts of the latest plans.
Cluster bombs are now to be used against Russian forces in particular to stop tanks. The reason why this decision has been taken is clear though: the West needs to buy time for EU countries in particular to build up their military stocks which are running dangerously low. The West needs at least six months before it can even think about preparing Ukraine for a new “offensive” and so dumping tonnes of this particularly cruel explosive on the Ukrainian army seemed like a good sticking plaster for what is in reality a gaping wound.
But are these the same cluster bombs which most of NATO members signed a treaty to ban? Are these the same bombs that the west used to take the high moral ground with when accusing Russia of using them against Ukrainian forces? The hypocrisy, or rather desperation is stunning but it underlines a point which keeps raising its ugly head. The more time that passes with no change to the fortified line, the more Russia wins and the more the West loses. And NATO bosses and perhaps Biden knows this and so the initiative of cluster bombs to me personally, as a journalist who has witnessed what they do in war zones, is a measured strategy of a side which knows it’s losing and wants to slow down the speed of its own demise on the battlefield.
You ain’t seen nothing yet, they want to put Ursula in charge of NATO!
Some people don’t know that the ravishing Princess Diana was an advocate for clearing mines and munitions out of former war zones.
Have a great photochop of the Sex Pistols God Save the Queen with her as the queen.
The 120+ nations who signed on to ban the clusters?
Irrelevant to the indispensable Hegemony Cricket.
Pentagon and NATO bosses don’t care less about the people of Ukraine — so what if a child or a peasant has a foot blown off? They and big corporations who back them do care, however, about the natural resources Ukraine has. The second major objective of Joe’s war after wearing Russia down is plunder.
if cluster bombs are illegal, why do we have them. does the illegal nature apply to everyone, save the u. s., for whom they are ‘legal’?
there are absolutely evil people in charge. this evil must be expunged.