Reuters: Pentagon defends sending Ukraine cluster munitions
Under Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl confirmed to reporters at a Pentagon briefing that the bomblet failure rate of the munitions being sent is above 1%, the export of which is banned by a 2009 law, but said the move did not break any laws as President Joe Biden has the authority to waive the limit.
Kahl said he cared about the "humanitarian circumstance" given that civilians could be harmed from unexploded ordnance, "but the worst thing for civilians in Ukraine is for Russia to win the war. And so it's important that they don't."
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Update: Biden Defends 'Difficult' Decision to Send Cluster Munitions to Ukraine (The Hill)
WNU Editor: During the Vietnam war there was phrase (true or not) that said the following .... "we had to destroy the village to save it". Now we have a new phrase from the Pentagon .... ‘Russian victory’ worse than civilian cluster-bomb deaths.
Not surprising. Russian media is having a field day with this quote .... ‘Russian victory’ worse than civilian cluster-bomb deaths – Pentagon (RT).
Ukraine has promised Washington that they will not use these cluster munitions against civilian targets. But Ukraine has been using cluster munitions against civilian targets in the Donbas for years. Check out two of Patrick Lancaster's reports on Ukraine's use of cluster bombs below. One from last year and one from eight years ago.
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