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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

clusters are banned from use by 111 countries, with a dozen more interested on ratifying the ban for a reason

this should be getting a hard no from anyone that supported the ban, and anyone that has criticised russias use of them in this war

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

US nor Ukraine have banned them so no legal issues but regarding their use, personally it should up to Ukraine to decide if they should or should not use them since they are using them on Ukrainian land. I trust that Ukraine will limit them to certain scenarios against dug in Russian positions and not indiscriminately like Russia has been. Essentially it's either use cluster ammo against or no ammo, because US/Europe has a very limited supply which they already gave Ukraine, until they ramp up production Ukraine needs at least something. But yes in a perfect world they would have enough guided ammo.