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Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

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The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Yes, we get it, the response to literally every decision you don't like is massacre of the people you don't like

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

Are you aware of what depleted uranium does to the human body? Innocent people are going to be dealing with the consequences of a decision made by a handful of people across the planet for decades after the war ends. Does poisoning generations of people sound like "defending" Ukrainians to you?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

But Depleted uranium isn't enriched uranium.

You're lying.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago

Who said it was? It's still an environmental contaminant, a carcinogen, and linked to a rise in birth defects after its use in Iraq

It's use will have consequences far outside of the conflict and ruin the lives of who knows how many people who had absolutely no say in this war and I'm supposed to cheer it on?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, but why are you upset about this particular heavy metal as opposed to all the others involved in weapons?

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

The op is specifically about depleted uranium but hey, if you want to make the case that we shouldn't be sending weapons to Ukraine in the first place I'm not going to argue against it shrug-outta-hecks