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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 67 points 11 months ago (16 children)

Whatever munition you choose, it will lead to heavy metal poisoning.

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[–] MonkCanatella 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (19 children)

OP is known tankie just fyi. Doesn't justify US or Ukrainian actions but make sure you understand that the reason for posting this isn't out of any actual concern for human beings. They're also peddling covid conspiracies

[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They posted a Reuters article

Is that an evil tankie propaganda website now?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago

Ah but they posted the Reuters article maliciously. In a scheming, tankie sort of way.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (3 children)

known tankie lmao

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago (4 children)

peddling covid conspiracies

like what?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago

Probably the conspiracy that the virus is still a pandemic and people are still dying and we should all wear masks, you know the truth

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OP is known tankie just fyi.

Hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (19 children)

So let me get this straight, according to you:

The people that don't support either side of the war and want to end it as fast as possible through peace talks are evil tankies.

And the bloodthirsty monsters that want to prolong a pointless war, arm Azov Nazis and kill as many people as possible with illegal inhumane weapons that scar generations are freedom-loving liberals.

Seems like the tankies are the more reasonable ones in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

That's an interesting point, but have you considered Harry Potter?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Ahh wonderful, time for so many future children to be born horribly disfigured via contaminated drinking water. Also don't forget all the booming cancer rates!

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (60 children)

Just another piece of evidence that the west never actually cared about Ukraine or people living there. Ukrainians are just a pawn the west is using to try and weaken Russia with zero consideration for the lives of the people living there.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (56 children)

Every person involved in making this decision deserves to be buried in an unmarked grave with the weapons they love so much. How many innocent people completely uninvolved with the war are going to grow up suffering the effects of depleted uranium rounds? Another absolutely monstrous decision in a long line of monstrous decisions by the US government.