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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Ukraine making use of whatever they can get their hands on is more understandable under the circumstances. I don't think being at war excuses everything, and there are limits even under their circumstances, but it's understandable.
The US is the party with the much more dubious moral position in choosing to send this kind of munitions. If they want to help, it's not like they don't have other options available, so the choice to send cluster bombs is a matter of weighing their own strategic interests in preserving other weaponry against actively enabling what they described as a war crime not too long ago.
Their choice also looks bad again for the idea of the "rules based order" championed by them, because they don't sign treaties like this.
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Meh. No idea who didn't sign it first or not but unless Russia is going to sign it, then I don't see why the US would. Be stupid to limit weapons that your main rival doesn't limit.