Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) Blamed this Monday for US decision to supply cluster munitions to UkraineHe said it was a measure that led to the Third World War. US President Joe Biden “should not drag us any further into World War III” by sending controversial cluster bombs; Instead, Trump said that Biden “should work to end the war (in Ukraine) and stop the horrific death and destruction wrought by an incompetent Administration.”
Biden last week approved the supply of cluster bombs from Pentagon arsenals to Ukraine. He asked the US not to supply them. Biden justified his “difficult” but necessary decision because “the Ukrainians are running out of ammo.”
However, Trump, the Republican candidate for the 2024 US elections, warns of danger of unexploded cluster bombsHe said they would “kill and maim innocent Ukrainian men, women and children for decades, long after the war is over.”
In a statement released by the Make America Great Again (MAGA) campaign office, the former US President alluded to Biden’s claim that he unwittingly admitted that the reason for sending such bombs was that the US was “running out of ammo.” If so, adds Trump, that’s all. further emphasizes the urgency of de-escalation. This bloody, dangerous and runaway conflict.” He also said it meant “we must not send our last reserves to Ukraine at a time when our own arsenal is dangerously low.”
Trump said that, with Biden’s “contemptuous admission” that “the policy of unending war in Ukraine has greatly weakened the United States”, that the country “is depleted of ammunition”, this has undoubtedly “caused the spit of our enemies”. “We must stop this madness, stop the bloodshed in Ukraine immediately, and refocus on America’s vital interests,” he said.
But Ukrainians welcome the US decision to supply them with cluster munitions, saying it will weaken Russian resistance in the current counterattack and save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, outweighing the potential risks.