I'll add my two cents...
I am not a fan of arming the Ukraine, and I am not a fan of this admin, but Jake Sullivan did a great job explaining why the Biden Admin is providing weapons they said a year ago would amount to "war crimes."
He answered so many questions articulately (even though I don't like all of this answers). This was in great contrast to the typical KJP performance....
He explained that the US is committed to arming Ukraine (duh), and that the reason for supplying clusterbombs include:
- Admin considered this long
- Russia is using these clusterbombs (CBs)
- Russia has dropped an estimated >10M bomblets already
- Russia's CBs have poor reliability - 20-30% of bomblets are duds and pose a mine threat.
- Our bombs are more reliable - duds are less than 2.5% - thus more humane, LOL.
- Ukraine is only using these on their own soil, for defense.
Very interesting.
Timestamped to Jake...
This is turning into an escalating war that is never going to end. Who could have predicted that?
Easily predicted. The USG is run by neocons, and has been for over two decades.