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US Sends Deadly Cluster Bombs to Ukraine After Years of Condemning Their Use. Plus: YouTube's Censorship of Jordan Peterson's Talk with RFK Jr. | SYSTEM UPDATE #112

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Cluster Munitions in the US Secret War in Ukraine

120 countries have signed the convention on cluster munitions that 120 countries have signed does not demand they be used responsibly. They just ban them on the grounds that they're intrinsically irresponsible because they will inevitably result in the loss of a large amount of civilian life. Since we're in the war in Ukraine ostensibly to protect civilian life it's kind of a strange thing to do to send them weapons that we know will kill civilians in the war zone meaning Ukrainian children who will find these undetonated weapons and when they do they will be killed as has happened so often here for example is a USA Today article from April 4th a few months ago from a soldier who writes quote I dropped cluster bombs on Laos in

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