Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine--Our own Defense is in Jeopardy

Biden Widely Criticized After Admitting to Military Shortages in Televised Interview

On Sunday, Joe Biden admitted during a televised interview that the United States is low on 155 mm artillery ammunition rounds, leading to widespread backlash for an act that essentially revealed classified military information to the entire world.

As Fox News reports, Biden made the remarks in an interview on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, while the subject of the Ukraine war was being discussed. Biden was defending his administration’s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, which he called a “transition period” until more munitions can be produced and sent to the war-torn country.

“This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it,” Biden told Zakaria in the interview. “And so, what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to – not permanently – but to allow for this transition period while we get more 155 weapons, these shells, for the Ukrainians.”

“Last year, WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the use of cluster bombs a ‘war crime' and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. condemned it.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

f Joe Biden