cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/794993
Archived version: https://archive.ph/YHzBc
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230728005938/https://www.reuters.com/world/us-intelligence-report-says-china-likely-supplying-tech-russian-military-2023-07-27/
Isn’t the USA supplying cluster bombs to Ukraine?
Yep, and that’s a good thing.
American cluster bombs are still killing children in Laos. They’re a stupid weapon.
Russia invaded Laos?!
Russia is already using them
I’ll defer to the defenders WRT what weapons they need.
Russia is not using them. Only Ukraine has been.
So you’re okay with them using chemical weapons, petal mines (which they have), bioweapons… just anything goes, right? The people of Crimea and Donbas are “defenders”, can they do anything too?
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/25/growing-civilian-toll-russian-cluster-munition-attacks
Chemical weapons: no, due to their effects easily leaving the AOR. Petal mines: yes. Crimea and the Donbas are occupied Ukrainian territory.
It is well documented, by Human Rights Watch and others, that **the Ukrainian military **has used cluster munitions. There is nothing to support a claim that Russia has done so. The Pentagon has rejected the earlier claimed evidence of Russian cluster munition attacks:
Get some consistency man, you’re all over the place.
It may surprise you to know that in a thread where I advocate for the US giving Ukraine cluster munitions, that I don’t care that Ukraine has been using cluster munitions.
As stated by another, your Pentagon source is out of date. It’s pretty funny though that you reject HRW saying Russia is using them, but use HRW as your source that Ukraine is.
WRT chemical weapons: different things are different. When you can contain things in an AOR, I’m less concerned about the lingering effects. Areas can be closed off and cleared, especially when you’re the one that dropped them. That’s way less possible with chemical weapons, that will literally drift with the wind.
No, nothing surprises me with hopelessly brainwashed supporters of fascist Ukraine. You don’t care because you have no consistent moral principles. On the one hand you pretend to care about chemical weapons affecting the wrong people and on the other you don’t care because your “side” is using them. You can’t even offer a plausible excuse.
Not funny when you know that HRW is an arm of US propaganda., so when it says something negative about a US ally, you can take them seriously, because they couldn’t deny it and had to admit it to try to appear to be impartial.
Yeah but it is not suitable for rage inducing title, so they choose China instead.
The double standards and american exceptionalism of the people that post CNN/WaPo/NYT news articles on foreign events…
Russia is the aggressor and the US stands with Ukraine and helps them.
China pretends to be ‘neutral’ in a war so glaringly having a country violate the sovereignty of Ukraine but then secretly support the aggressor.
What is so difficult to understand? Or do you purposefully try to muddy the waters by invoking “whatabout…?” and see if the countries supporting Ukraine could be slandered?
This war could not be more clear in who is the aggressor and who try to help the violated. The fact you feel the need to point in all directions and try to steer attention away from where we should be paying attention to is in itself a despicable act, only the logical conclusion I am left with is that you somehow feel aligned with russia and it’s war path against others. You created a moral outrage where other should feel bad but the only thing you have truly done is put a stain on your character. Pathetic and shameful to be basically rooting for russia at this point.
US is a murderous invader that has invaded Iraq, Afganistan in my lifetime and continues to bomb many places on earth.
Who will support victims of American agression?
You’re not wrong…
This is just more whataboutism.
That’s a lot of talking for someone who wants to use clusterbombs…
How is saying that close military allies are supporting each other ‘AmErIcAn ExCePtIoNaLiSm’?
Fuck off back to lemmygrad.
He is on lemmygrad, that’s how federation works.
If you want to be in a neoliberal echo chamber, you should move to beehaw. Or back to reddit.
Maybe you’re too stupid to understand, but just because you don’t have to make another account to participate in different instances doesn’t mean anyone cares about your despot-worshiping bullshit outside of your home instance.
Seriously, if the .ml instance is just as infested with these disgusting people as lemmygrad, there’s no point to us participating in the discussion. Don’t engage with tankies.
Pretty weird to talk about echo chambers when someone’s calling out zero value circlejerk comments.