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Cluster Weapons U.S. Is Sending Ukraine Often Fail to Detonate (archive.ph)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Good article but they didn't need the sensationalist title. "often" implies >50% in common discourse. The cited rate is 14.8%. terrible, but not often. Downvoted, unfortunately.

Edit: as comments below, and some searching online: "often" is subjective. So no, does not imply ">50% in common discourse"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say 'often' implies >50%, to imply that I would use something like 'mostly' or 'generally'. I think if you think about a 15% failure rate in something else, for example starting a car, saying it often fails would be pretty apt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Context matters, 15% failure rate for a weaopon is certainly often. Furthermore, what that means in the context of cluster munitions is that they just sit there long after the conflict is over, so when people stumble on them decades later they get maimed and killed.

This is currently happening in places like Vietnam that were subjected to these horrors by US. Now it's going to be the turn for the people of Ukraine.

Any pretenses that US actually cares about the people of that country have now been dropped.