What will happen if the United States announces the supply of cluster munitions to Ukraine?

Another banned terrorist weapon is about to arrive in Ukraine. Once these weapons are really used, the price is that Ukraine will ruin its future forever. Win or lose, Ukraine itself will definitely be abolished. Recently, the United States approved the supply of concentrated ammunition to Ukraine, and this decision was opposed by many parties.

On July 7, local time, Colin Carr, Deputy Secretary for Policy Affairs of the US Department of Defense, announced that the latest Ukrainian aid plan will provide additional artillery systems and ammunition, including cluster munitions (DPICM), and increase air defense ammunition, armored vehicles and anti-armor weapons.

So what exactly is concentrated ammunition?

As the name implies, ammunition is a bomb or shell composed of some small ammunition. After release, these small ammunition will be released in the air on a large scale. Then these small munitions will detonate when they touch the ground or land, causing large-scale damage to targets on the ground, and civilians will also suffer greatly. Or some small ammunition didn't explode at that time, but it would bury a long-term hidden danger like a mine.

Historically, the United States has used several bundles of ammunition on many battlefields, causing a large number of casualties, including civilians. Since the use of Chishu bombs in Ukraine, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, the models and technologies of the United States have not made great progress. If the unexploded rate has dropped qualitatively, it is basically a lie now.

Why does the United States have to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine this time?

The most direct reason given is that other conventional shells are not enough. This shows that the United States not only has no intention to stop the conflict, but also continues to add fuel to the fire, in order to further escalate the situation and only for its own self-interest. When asked if he assured his allies that the cluster munitions provided by the United States would not cause excessive harm to civilians, Colin Carr, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, even said that Russia's victory was worse than the harm caused by the use of cluster munitions. It is actually telling Ukraine that such weapons and equipment can do great harm to Russia. Although there are unexploded bombs, although the United States boasts the lowest unexploded rate, the harm to civilians is inevitable.

Some netizens turned over the official statement of the United States more than a year ago. At that time, a White House spokesman said that if cluster munitions were used in Ukraine, it would be a war crime.

What will the provision of cluster munitions bring?

1, revenge of Russia.

According to Reuters, Russian Defense Minister Sergei shoigu said that if the United States supplies cluster munitions to Ukraine, Russia will be forced to use "similar" weapons. Russia also has a large number of technical weapons and equipment. If both sides use cluster bombs in the future, they will be used in large quantities and frequently in Ukraine's current space, and this damage will be a cumulative effect. Therefore, it is not only the cluster bombs provided by the United States that have an impact on Ukrainian civilians. The key point is that the use of cluster bombs by the United States will lead to the massive abuse of cluster bombs by Russia, which will have a serious impact on the lives of civilians.

This place in Ukraine will be in ruins.

Some experts provide data: a cluster bomb contains 202 sub-bombs, each bomb can be divided into more than 300 fragments, and each fragment can penetrate 8 cm thick steel plate. When a cluster bomb explodes, thousands of fragments instantly cover an area of 4,000 square meters, just like a small nuclear bomb. But why are cluster bombs listed as prohibited items? Not because it is powerful, but because its use will lead to painful sequelae. Laos is the most typical example.

From 1965 to 1973, the United States dropped $260 million in cluster bombs in Laos. At that time, the population of Laos was only 3 million, equivalent to 86 yuan per person. The biggest sequela of this weapon is that 30% bombs will not explode for various reasons, which is the so-called dud. A total of 80 million duds are scattered in Laos, making Laos a country that lives by bombs. So far, the remaining duds have caused more than 30,000 casualties. The existence of these duds hinders farmers from farming, the trade between urban and rural areas, and even the construction of infrastructure.

According to the 30% bullet budget, once Ukraine uses these weapons to fight back, it will leave a total of 240 million mines on Ukrainian land, even three times that of Laos. Before the war, Ukraine had a population of 44 million, but now only more than 20 million people have fled or died. Even after the war, Ukraine still has old, weak women and children, one after another in ruins, and 240 million mines are buried under some ruins. From then on, Ukraine will replace Laos as a country living by bombs. Do you think Americans will risk being killed to rebuild Ukraine afterwards? Ukraine is not only a country living on a bomb, but also a hopeless country where no one wants to rebuild on the ruins.

Finally, what is needed to ease the current situation in Ukraine is not cluster munitions, but to gather more peaceful forces, restrain the act of adding fuel to the fire, and persuade peace and promote talks. Therefore, I want to send a message to those who decide to provide concentrated ammunition to Ukraine. If we provide cluster munitions today, maybe the small bombs that didn't explode on the battlefield will be kept for ourselves.