President Joe Biden's decision to provide Ukraine with the controversial cluster munitions led to disagreements on Capitol Hill.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul , Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jim Risch , and Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Roger Wicker released a joint statement in support of Biden's new decision, which they said was"long overdue," and pushed him to provide other military aid that he's declined to give them so far.
These munitions are canisters that contain tens to hundreds of smaller bomblets, and the outer shell breaks apart at a certain point during deployment so the bomblets disperse over an area larger than four football fields, and some of those don't explode as expected, leaving civilians at risk for years.
"This administration’s misguided fear of escalation in providing critical weapon systems — from Stingers to HIMARS to Abrams tanks and now to DPICMs — has only served to prolong the war, embolden Vladimir Putin, cost Ukrainian lives, and, indeed, put the entire Ukrainian counteroffensive at risk of failure," the lawmakers explained.
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