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Morality Comes Down on the Side of Providing Cluster Munitions to Ukraine [1]

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Date: 2023-07-24

There are legitimate reasons for opposing supplying cluster rounds to Ukraine due to dud rates, but in the end the absolutist virtue signaling over DPICMs ignores the genocide Russia is carrying out in occupied territory. The means Russians are employing to exterminate Ukraine are so abhorrent, less than desirable means of stopping them have become necessary.

If we had acquired the bomb a couple of days after D-Day when we were bogged down in bocage country while Germany was exterminating millions of jews and gypsies, not to mention the disabled, would we have said using it to hasten putting an end to that genocide was immoral?

The Russian occupation poses an existential threat to the Ukrainian people living there, as in the existence of Ukrainians there, and the existence of Ukrainian children in particular there.

Duds do not

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