{"id":11378,"date":"2023-08-06T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11378"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:11:39","slug":"the-uss-controversial-decision-to-send-cluster-munitions-to-ukraine-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11378","title":{"rendered":"The US\u2019s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Cluster munitions \u2014 or dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICMs), as they\u2019re officially known \u2014 are haphazard and notoriously faulty. Once fired, they release dozens of bomblets in the air that spread out and saturate football-field- or city-block-size areas. The direction or targets for those bomblets can\u2019t be controlled, and they don\u2019t always immediately explode, turning into de facto land mines. For those reasons, they are particularly dangerous to civilians during war<\/a>, but also long after a conflict ends<\/a>.”
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/7\/7\/23785820\/cluster-bombs-ukraine-united-states-biden-treaty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Cluster munitions \u2014 or dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICMs), as they\u2019re officially known \u2014 are haphazard and notoriously faulty. Once fired, they release dozens of bomblets in the air that spread out and saturate football-field- or city-block-size areas. The direction or targets for those bomblets can\u2019t be controlled, and they don\u2019t always immediately explode, turning into de facto land mines. For those reasons, they are particularly dangerous to civilians during war, but also long after a conflict ends.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1900,552,924,728,272,355,314,1545,315,311,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-11378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ammo","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11379,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions\/11379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}