2023-07-12 00:17:48
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) charged this Monday against the decision of the United States to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine, a measure that, he said, drags more towards the Third World War. US President Joe Biden “should not be dragging us further into World War III” by sending the controversial cluster bombs; instead, Biden “should be trying to end the war (in Ukraine) and stop the horrible death and destruction being caused by an incompetent Administration,” Trump said in a statement.
Biden last week approved the supply to Ukraine of the cluster bombs existing in the Pentagon arsenals, a decision that circumvents the existing legal prohibition for the production, use and supply of this type of weapons and comes after organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) asked the US not to supply them. Biden justified his “difficult” but necessary decision because “the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition.”
However, Trump, the Republican candidate for the 2024 US elections, warned about the danger of unexploded cluster bombsthat they will “kill and maim innocent Ukrainian men, women and children for decades to come, long after the war is over.”
Through a statement released by his Make America Great Again (MAGA) campaign office, the former US president alluded to Biden’s alleged inadvertent admission that the reason for sending these types of bombs is that the US “is running out of ammunition”. . If so, adds Trump, that alone further highlights the “urgency of an immediate de-escalation of this bloody, dangerous and out-of-control conflict.” Furthermore, it means that “we should not send our last reserves to Ukraine at a time when our own arsenals are dangerously low,” he said.
Trump opined that Biden’s “policy of endless war in the Ukraine has greatly weakened the United States” with the “humiliating admission” that the country “has run out of ammunition”, something that undoubtedly “makes our enemies salivate”. . “We must stop this madness, immediately stop the bloodshed in Ukraine and refocus on America’s vital interests,” he said.
The Ukrainians, however, welcome the US decision to supply them with cluster munitions, saying it will weaken Russian resistance in the current counteroffensive, and that saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians outweighs the potential risks.
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