US President Joe Biden’s decision to deliver cluster munitions to Ukraine was a mistake, as it sparked heated debate at home and abroad. This view is expressed in an article penned for publication by Peter Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado. 19 Forty-Five.
Biden has been accused by critics of striking a blow to the movement to eliminate cluster munitions. The article says that disarmament activists and human rights activists have long called these weapons indiscriminate and inhumane and have refused to send them to the battlefield.
“Perhaps the most common reason Ukraine is equipped with cluster munitions is because it risks losing without them,” Harris wrote.
In his view, if there is a legitimate excuse for violating some kind of ammunition ban, that will put all others into question.
July 7 White House announced on the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine.
President Biden on the same day knowledgeableHe said that the decision to transfer cluster munitions to the Armed Forces of Ukraine was made because both countries had run out of conventional shells.
Military observer, retired colonel Viktor Litovkin, in an interview RT talked about the features of the device and the mechanism of action of cluster munitions.
Formerly in the Armed Forces in the open Source of information on the departures of Russian strategic aviation.