.HayesBrown: U.S.-made cluster munitions are high on Ukraine's wishlist. That doesn't mean that America should provide them.
. Sending such weapons will not only undercut much of the moral high ground the West has taken in the conflict, but it will also threaten the safety of Ukrainian civilians. Those costs would make any victory against dug-in Russian forces a pyrrhic one.— also known as submunitions, or “bomblets” — in flight. That signature trait, and the fact that Kyiv is requesting the kind that can be used with howitzers or other ground-based rocket launchers, makes them particularly useful in Ukraine.
The very thing that makes cluster munitions so effective makes them a long-term threat where they’re used. But the very thing that makes cluster munitions so effective makes them a long-term threat where they’re used. American arms makers are required to ensure that
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