https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4087247-alexander-vindman-on-cluster-munitions-decision/
“Russia believes that, as long as this war is continuing on, it maintains a veto over Ukraine’s NATO membership,” he told CNN. “So that means that we’re setting up a recipe for Russia to continue to interfere, continue to wage war in Ukraine, in an effort to block accession.”
The US has had to find a way to dispose of its stocks of cluster bombs, since they no longer use them. This is a cost effective way of ridding their stockpiles, and also supplying Ukraine with more deadly weapons.
ReplyDeleteSo you claim the us pushed for this not Ukraine?!
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“In a lot of ways, it seems counterintuitive, but it’s frankly one of the most humane things that they could do,” he continued. “Instead of having this war run indefinitely, having a sharp punctuated conclusion to this war is a pretty humane approach.”
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It also seems that President Putin subscribes to this approach. But not with sub-munutions. But with sup-munitions. Nuclear.
It's a meeting of convenience. Ukraine needs stuff, the US wants to get rid of stuff.
ReplyDelete“the president did the right thing” I agree. It’s 500 days Since Putin started murdering and murdering. We saw with the Wagner warlord Prigozhin that Putin is brittle. When Hitler attacked Germany early 1940 murdering and murdering the Allies massively armed Stalin. FDR tried not to provoke Mr. Hitler too much for fear what Hitler might do. Biden’s Afghanistan’s withdrawal tried not to provoke the Taliban too much. I expect the coming meeting of NATO and Biden in Vilnius, Lithuania, Biden to announce that Ukraine must win. Biden must stop the stupidity of not to provoke Putin too much.
ReplyDeleteAllow me two paragraphs from my letter to the NYS Court of Appeals July 4, 2023 on my Aranoff v Aranoff motion 2023-398 June 5, 2023. I’m a Cohain the Shulchan Aruch says to allow a Cohain to speak if he talks Torah. Pinchas was a Cohain. A Cohain brings peace to the world.
“4.TIAA manages all aspects my TIAA pension when I started teaching at Fordham University until today when TIAA paid me $995.89 on June 30, 2023 and paid Susan $1,217.20 on June 30, 2023. TIAA's payment to Susan June 30, 2023 $1,217.20 belongs to me. TIAA 1s not allowed to pay Susan 55\% of my pension. This is embezzlement, stealing.
I quote the Bible Exodus 22:8 “For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith: 'This is it,' the cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbour.” Hertz Chumash on Exodus 22:8: “trespass. Here the equivalent of embezzlement. whereof one saith. Either the owner or a witness comes forward and identifies something which is in the possession of the trustee or the thief as the lost property. this is it. The thing lost. condemn. Convict. If it is the trustee, he refunds the article and another of the same value. If the trustee is acquitted the witnesses who falsely accused him must pay him double the value of the lost article.”
5.Susan was satisfied with all court's rulings on my TIAA pension. Susan falsely claimed that I abandoned her, the house and our six small children for my dream to live in Jerusalem. Susan was out to do me harm out of pique whatever, even to the extent of alienating our six children from me. I never intended to harm or to insult Susan. I never cared about money. We are now before a court of judges to rule to whom belongs my TIAA pension.”
Cluster bombs don't render the planet uninhabitable
ReplyDeleteUkraine won't say no to any weapons. US have just destroyed their chemical weapons, so they obviously had no qualms about cluster bombs
ReplyDeleteCheck put the latest models of tactical nuclear bombs. The user dials in the size blast they want. And the weapons are designed to be used in a way that limits radioactive fallout. Gets the job done! If blowing up soldiers with cluster bomb submunitoons is "humane", why can't a "mushroom cloud" here or there be "humane"?
ReplyDeleteHere's something to consider though - Russia has had these nukes all along. If they really wanted a quick war, then the minute their offensive bogged down at the beginning, they could have detonated one in Kiev or Kherson and that would've ended the war quite quickly. They didn't and you have to ask why.
ReplyDeleteYou never want to decapitate the enemy. That's why Tokyo was spared from the bomb. Kill the Emperor, and the Japanese may fight to the last man, woman and child in the battle to carry out the last known directive from him.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the bomb is risky. Maybe NATO will just say: Enough. We can use all thos enatymural resources. Let's carve up Russia with the Chinese and be done with it.
But if the bear's back is to the wall...then all bets are off. Let the Vodka pour!!
They don't wish to use nukes, but just make noise about them as a deterrent
ReplyDeleteWell it's the one-off theory. If Putin uses a few nukes, chas v'shalom, then NATO must go to war and we're all dead. But will NATO go to war over just 1 nuke? Would it be worth it to them?
ReplyDeleteChekhov's bomb
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