Democratic presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr took aim at Joe Biden after the announcement that the Department of Defense would transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine.
The Biden administration announced to send M864 155-millimeter artillery shells, or Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICM), to dispense smaller explosive weapons over an area to attack personnel and vehicles.
The decision goes back to a previous decision to withhold the weapons.
Cluster munitions Biden is sending to Ukraine are controversial due to the risk against civilians from “dud” submunitions, which can cause harm long after a conflict is over.
Cluster munitions were manufactured in the 1990s, The Washington Post reported.
“Cluster bombs are munitions so horrific for civilians that more than a hundred nations have signed an international treaty banning them,” Kennedy posted on Twitter.
“Now the Biden administration is preparing to send them to Ukraine.”
“These munitions scatter bomblets across the landscape,” Kennedy said in a follow-on post.
“Many fail to explode — until children pick them up later. They have caused thousands of injuries and deaths to civilians.”
To date, the United States has sent over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine.
In January, the US announced they would send 31 M1 Abrams main battle tanks after a December announcement that a battery of MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles would be provided to that country.
“Fortunately for Biden, there’s no anti-war left in the US Congress to bother him about this,” journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted.
“There are a few left-ish commentators, otherwise loyal to Democrats, who are making some noise about it, but by and large this will go forward without protest.”
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