So the author proposes using not one but two legally questionable tactics to send Ukraine artillery shells that are actually worse than useless!?!

As the article correctly notes the US quit using those M483A1 and M864 DPICM rounds because of their high failure rate. If Ukraine where to fire even 2,000 of these per day that means there would be 280 (or more) unexploded bomblets lying on the ground just waiting for a unsuspecting soldier or child to wander by and set it off.

It gets mind bogglingly worse the longer they are used too, as after just a year there would be over 100,000 of the damn things laying around!

So no, they shouldn’t be used anywhere…unless you want to spend the next hundred years dealing with the unexploded ordinance littering your terrain!

Republicans need to STFU and get back to funding the real stuff. THAT is the answer, not legal chicanery to send shit ordinance.

So fire them into Russia. Problem solved.

Even if you can’t agree Russian civilians are innocent, children absolutely are.

You’re right, especially the Ukrainian children kidnapped and held in Russia.

I get what you’re doing, trying to play around the wording.

Just cut it out, no one is apologizing for what the Russian military is doing.

That said, Russian children are not responsible for those atrocities, and 2 wrongs don’t make a right.

Ukraine defending their country is obviously just. Ukraine hunting children with UXO is not. Luckily Ukrainian leadership knows this.

I get what you’re doing, trying to play around the wording.

No, I’m agreeing with you while taking the opportunity to remind everyone what absolute scum Russians are.

no one is apologizing for what the Russian military is doing.

Exactly. Someone should apologize.

And I also see what you’re doing, putting all the blame on the military like Putin was not generally loved in Russia before the war. Russian are pissed only because now they also have to die. If Putin only murdered Ukrainians they would still happily support him and his war.

If he was actually generally loved in Russia why were the last few elections so obviously tampered with?

Because he needs to pretend support for him is absolute while in reality only vast majority supports him. Because he cannot allow any opposition to grow in Russia in case he makes a mistake, like he did with Ukraine. Because if there’s any sign of weakness even his allies will turn against him in a heartbeat.

He’s tampering with elections to move it from 70-80% to 100%, not to move it from 10% to 100%. It’s lower since the war didn’t go as planned but most Russians supported Putin and his war.

Yeah… He got 77% of the vote even after ballot stuffing and barring his real opposition from running. So your math doesn’t align with reality though.

You’re right, I was wrong by 20%. His support is around 50% and he’s pushing it to 70%. Does this mean he’s not supported by general public? 40-50% is as much as any government gets really.

Only 50% after repeatedly killing opposition candidates?