This latest development from the Biden administration is concerning on many levels.
The White House is announcing their approval to send cluster bombs to Ukraine in an effort to provide a very deadly and dangerous type of munitions that have been resoundingly criticized by most of the western alliance. Cluster bombs are not just dangerous on the battlefield, they are also notorious for creating collateral civilian damage.
That said, when you overlay the reality of the Ukraine policy, essentially World War Reddit, being driven in large part by a psychological operation that is challenging to figure out from a reality perspective; in combination with very unstable people in the U.S. government seemingly playing war within the larger policy agenda; one must also look at this from a Russian intelligence position.
Is the Biden administration really willing to deploy cluster bombs or is this some PR narrative intended to give the impression the U.S. is willing to up the stakes in the use of weapons that will continue escalating, regardless of consequence. There are a lot of unstable minds within this larger Ukraine narrative as promoted by the White House, Pentagon and State Dept (CIA).
WASHINGTON DC – The Biden administration on Friday announced it will include cluster bombs in the United States’ next $800 million weapons package for Ukraine, as well as armored vehicles and air defense missiles.
President Joe Biden acknowledged it took some time to be convinced to provide the controversial weapons, but he stressed the importance of supporting Ukraine’s ammunition supplies while preserving U.S. inventories, as well as discussing how Kyiv plans to deploy the bombs.
“We’re in a situation where Ukraine continues to be brutally attacked across the board by these cluster munitions with dud rates that are very high,” Biden said in an upcoming interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan also responded to humanitarian concerns about the controversial cluster bombs by emphasizing the need to provide Kyiv with artillery and by saying that Ukraine has already been targeted by Russia’s cluster bombs.
“We recognize that cluster munitions created risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance,” Sullivan said during a White House press briefing. “This is why we deferred the decision for as long as we could, but there is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions and take more Ukrainian territory and subjugate more Ukrainian civilians because Ukraine does not have enough artillery.”
Cluster munitions are designed to destroy multiple targets at once by dropping explosive “bomblets” over a wide area, risking potentially harming civilians or other unintended targets. Both sides are already actively using the weapons. Ukrainian cluster munitions killed at least eight civilians in Izium last year, according to Human Rights Watch. (read more)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Friday said President Joe Biden and fellow NATO leaders will discuss at next week’s summit what steps Ukraine must complete to join NATO and that Kyiv has additional reforms to make, as it fights Russian invaders.
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, said Ukraine will not be voted into NATO membership at the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, but he encouraged Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskiy to attend to discuss the matter.
“The NATO summit will dive into the question of NATO’s relationship with Ukraine both the question of its pathway towards future membership and the question of an ongoing partnership that has existed for several years,” he said. (read more)
“This vegetable is out of control. He’s out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
They want to goad Putin into using nukes on the battlefield. Full stop. THAT will in their minds then justify ANY tyrannical action, ANY and ALL censorship, confiscation, nationalization, etc. etc.
This signifies something that I’ve been warning about for months. Shipping DPICM to Ukraine is just one more sign that we are out of unitary High Explosive 155mm projectiles (HE). The war stocks are bare. If we start cranking out HE rounds right now, without sending any more to Ukraine, it will take us five years to be where we were 18 mos. ago. That’s like two generations of US servicemen who won’t have HE to train with. The ability to combine arms effectively will suffer as a result.
This is a problem.
I would propose in the current administration’s eyes it is a feature not a problem. They hate our country and want to bring us down so they can be our over lords.
Totally disgusting
Criminal and I do believe it rises to the charge of Treason against this county.
One thing is certain…this country called the USA won’t stop Biden et.al. from whatever they decide to do in Ukraine. Period.
My question is this: What is going to happen in CUBA? Something tells me that is won’t be good for the USA and perhaps this saber rattling effort/action is the method to take our eyes off the target that is building momentum 90 miles from our shores.
Help me understand.
Yeah, as usual, great idea. What could possibly go wrong? We are surrounded by idiots.
Tactical use of cluster munitions is to take out lightly armored vehicles and infantry in trenches. We have a stockpile of 4 million rounds, enough to keep the Ukrainian artillery firing for two years. Neither the west or Russian industry can produce the number of shells required to meet current tactical needs. Further, military grade steel required to replace Russian artillery tubes has become problematic as economic decisions in the 90s ended government subsidies. We are seeing Russians relying on mortars and the Graz rocket systems to replace howitzers. These systems will continue to provide volumes of fire support with less accuracy and in the mortars case, less range. Cluster munitions are the weapon of choice against these systems. To date the Ukrainians have been attempting AirLand battle without air superiority. Howitzer artillery capability combined with cluster munitions offsets that disadvantage to a marked degree. BTW Biden isn’t making these decisions, some cluster of Jedi Majors in the bowels of the pentagon has met with the sole purpose of gutting the Russian’s artillery tactics.
Russia is fully capable of producing 152mm shells to supply its needs and even stockpile some. Its the US that is defect. Not only in ammo but modern up to date armor as well.
Russia uses highly accurate laser guided artillery munitions. Like the Krasnopol that greatly reduce the number of shells expended to hit a target to 1 or 2. Instead of a barrage.
Russia has 10s of thousands of Artillery pieces both mobile, and towed plus spare parts and the industrial capability to make them.
Russia has around 100 weapon factories that employ 39000 people. Located deep in the Ural Mountains.
BTW its GRAD not GRAZ. Russia has may other very effective MLRS systems as well. Like the deadly and highly feared TOS 1a, and the Smerch BM130 that can fire IR guided missiles.
Because USA did not sign the ban on Cluster Weapons. Russia did not as well. Russia has vast stockpiles of them.
Giving the Ukraine all of those 155mm cluster shells is madness. It will do nothing but kill more Ukrainians. As Russia rains holy hell down on them in fiery, explosive, and devastating reply.
What nonsense AU. Thanks for pointing out the typo. The rest of your post is garbage.
War crime.
So .. Without a Declaration of War by Congress, without budget approval, he has almost completely disarmed his own country and left it with big gaping holes in homeland defense, and this f*ker isn’t impeached YET??
GOOD GOD.
Yes Missy, the sky is falling. No, the nation is not disarmed. Agree he should have been impeached long before this.