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Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

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The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

            
              correlation ≠ causation. 2) if the disease is caused by DU, is it due to the radioactivity or the fact that DU is a heavy metal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i never said it had to be because of radiation. Even just in its effect as a heavy metal it seems to be much worse. Also it could be that it becomes airborn more easily than other metals such as lead, so the wreckage of tanks shot with DU are more dangerous to the people cleaning them up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why are you so worried about speculated harms when Ukrainians are actually being raped, tortured, and murdered by russians? Your lack of humanity is showing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Turning "we need to weigh benefits and costs" into "your lack of humanity is showing" is quite a take and obviously has nothing to do with reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

How about letting Ukrainians make that cost/benefit analysis for their own country? I think they're grown-ups, no need to patronize.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's not the Ukrainian people who decide, it's the Ukrainian government that decides, and America basically decides what they decide

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Ukrainian government has a very high approval rate among the population.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Are you really this delusional? Sure Ukraine has their own uranium munitions that they can decide to use anytime they want... When does the public get to decide on what happens with the tax money - fund schools, build infrastructure, etc. or send radioactive ammunition to fuel a proxy war in some corrupt country?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Weighing costs and benefits happens with a comprehensive set of actual facts, not a hodgepodge of speculations and fearmongering that play into the fascists' hands