The Opposition to Clustered Weapons in Ukraine

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There is a lot of opposition. Some countries are opposed because they've signed up to the Convention against the use of them. Spain has explicitly said that they shouldn't be sent. Germany is actually blocking Estonia from re-exporting its cluster weapons to Ukraine. In America, there is opposition to mostly the Democrats and Republicans do support what Joe Biden says he's trying to do. But House progressives have said that they opposed this.

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