Devastating Cluster Munitions Will Yield More Russian and Ukrainian Deaths

Commentary
Since at least September 2022, Ukraine has been lobbying the United States to provide it with cluster munitions (CMs), as its own stocks of Russian/Soviet CMs were becoming depleted.
Now, despite the United States and NATO having supplied Ukraine with what was supposed to be enough conventional artillery shells to conduct a successful counteroffensive, President Joe Biden is rushing Ukraine mass quantities of CMs from the United States’ own vast stockpiles.
The justification for sending Ukraine these controversial weapons is that Ukraine is on the cusp of completely running out of ammunition for its artillery, and that the cupboards of the United States and its NATO allies are bare of additional conventional rounds to send to Ukraine….