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submitted 1 year ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

I'm sure Ukrainian soldiers on the front line are worried about cancer and birth defects.

[-] flipht@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

It's not about them. It's the children who find the spent ammo later.

This crap is the reason that there are birth defects spikes anywhere the US military operates.

[-] kitonthenet@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Ok but the alternatives are not environmentally conscious either, finally the people who’s land it is should be the ones making choices about the conditions of that land

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[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Oh well... The amount of health risks that these rounds would cause would pale in comparison to the mines that the Orcs have planted everywhere. Anything to drive out the invaders!

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 25 points 1 year ago

is this a /s or a fr moment

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Their name is UraniumBlazer

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[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Yet more confirmation that the West regards Ukrainians as subhuman, and that they know they're not getting the territory back. Generations of birth defects, the unexploded bombs that cluster bombs leave behind, more and more people being drafted and shoved into a meat grinder in a war that's already lost, just so some American ghouls can make a bit of extra cash off their Raytheon stocks.

None of this was worth it. But it's going to keep happening. The US will keep arming Nazis and pushing war over diplomacy and destabilizing everything until something is done to get rid of those bastard war profiteers and the ghouls who lied us into Iraq and Afghanistan.

This shit's so fucking stupid. Can't wait for the chickenhawks to call me a bad person while sitting behind their keyboards demanding others be forced to fight in their stead.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

although the Ukrainians using such rounds in Ukraine also seem to regard other Ukrainians as subhuman

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[-] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Why though? Can't imagine that these rounds are going to change the course of the war, so why? Are they out of non-Uranium ones?

[-] letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

They are harder and penetrate armour better. So yes they will provide an advantage.

The sooner Russian occupiers are no longer murdering Ukrainians and dropping mines over every square meter of land, the less harm comes to Ukrainians.

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago
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[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just glad that as an Adult in the room, I'm on the right side of history. Arming Ukranian Nazis with depleted uranium is actually the least evil option and anyone who doesn't understand that is a child.

Another 50 billion for the cause!

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

The 500k homeless people in the US humbly accept and understand.

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[-] sewerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

The amount of ruscist sympathisers in this thread is depressing. Are depleted uranium munitions fucked up? Yeah and they shouldn't be used. But that isn't an excuse to bootlick a fascist invader that is already performing ethnic cleansing on territories they took last year

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