The US has agreed to send cluster bombs to Ukraine as part of its war effort. These are particularly nasty types of weapons that at least the UK, along with many other countries, had signed a treaty to promise not to use. The kind of allies we are making or the kind of people we are really trying to entertain or keeping to the West have very serious human rights and democratic destruction's record in different nations. So why do you give this kind of incentive to those who are destroying the democracies in their countries? If we are fighting for the democracy, if we areFighting for the human rights, if we have a value fight, then it makes sense.
Joining
UnHerd to talk about why so few voices in public life and the media have spoken out against the shipment of cluster bombs, and about the recession of anti-war sentiment more widely, is the academic and writer Ashok Swain. A professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University in Sweden, he is one of the world’s leading experts on conflict resolution. His nation of residence is now set to join Nato, and he sat down with Freddie Sayers to unpick how Sweden’s proposed membership goes against its history of neutrality.
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