If you haven’t heard, the US said a while ago that if Russia used cluster bombs in Ukraine it would be a war crime. They have just announced they are going to send them to Ukraine to use.
Jason writes:
Double standards and hypocrisy: The legacy of the American empire
This really frustrates me. The US government is proving once again civilian casualties are nothing more than collateral damage, all while posing them as the heroes safeguarding democracy.
One hundred and twenty-three countries have joined the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty which entered into force in 2010. Ironically, many of the states who signed the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions are NATO allies.
The US Cluster Munition Coalition, which is part of an international civil society campaign working to eradicate the weapons, said this would cause “greater suffering, today and for decades to come”.