Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine

Pun intended?

depleted uranium is much worse than conventional ammo.

Whatever water you drink, it will lead to heavy metal poisoning (eventually).

We have advanced beyond fighting to the last Ukranian and are now involving future Ukranians

Well, the alternatives are heavy metal, which also aren't the greatest to breathe in. It's almost like war is aweful and this one shouldn't have been started in the first place, but here we are...

Good thing Russia cared enough to murder, rape and kidnap them. What would Ukrainians do without help from great Putin?

Russia does not need the west to weaken it, comrade, it is perfectly capable of doing that on its own!

Yes, we get it, the response to literally every decision you don't like is massacre of the people you don't like

They aren't that dangerous as a weapon of war. The uranium is depleted, as the name suggest. The alternative is heavy metal, which is also dangerous to breathe in. It's war and it sucks for health. Maybe there shouldn't have been an invasion...

Ah, yes, a nice hexbear to giggle at on my Sunday evening.

File size requirements made me create this low res monstrosity lmao, also please do replace the Tilted Towers for the Palace of Culture and Sciences for thr more realistic scenario.

bite America in the ass

It won't be America it bites in the ass; they'll be a deadly menace to their neighbors in the West (as I would imagine Russia is going to remain on its toes about armed Ukrainian militias). They've been pretty open about their far right views. Frankly this was actually a brilliant strategy for the government; much like how they turned the Middle East into nations yearning for America's protection, so too will the rest of (Western) Europe now become new clients. As a business strategy it's brilliant, my only question is why European governments and the idiots who vote for them over there actually going along with this; you're watching the car careening towards the cliff, why are you cheering the guy pushing it from behind rather than slamming on the brakes.

Even the Taliban didn't commit 9/11 until the US had already been engaged in military actions in Afghanistan for years by that point. War profiteering is the point.

https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1698195427172945944?s=46&t=mO-5zqql6YG39RPsMYhC_Q

"To the last Ukrainian" is no longer enough, now future Ukrainians have to die too.

They posted a Reuters article

Is that an evil tankie propaganda website now?

known tankie lmao

peddling covid conspiracies

like what?

OP is known tankie just fyi.

Hilarious.

So let me get this straight, according to you:

The people that don't support either side of the war and want to end it as fast as possible through peace talks are evil tankies.

And the bloodthirsty monsters that want to prolong a pointless war, arm Azov Nazis and kill as many people as possible with illegal inhumane weapons that scar generations are freedom-loving liberals.

Seems like the tankies are the more reasonable ones in this situation.

Info is reuters. Are you on a crusade against tankie? Because it looks like you are.

What's a tankie lol

Turns out UK managed to develop stealth tanks and didn't tell anybody.

the cruelty is the point

Because of the uranium bullets are denser and heavier than the lead bullets and you can use the uranium bullets on certain types of aircraft and other weapons systems to shred through medium to heavy armor that could not be penetrated with a lead bullet. TLDR this will be used as a force multiplier.

They are harder and penetrate armour better. So yes they will provide an advantage.

The sooner Russian occupiers are no longer murdering Ukrainians and dropping mines over every square meter of land, the less harm comes to Ukrainians.

Russian forced are mechanized and entrenched, depleted uranium self sharpens on impact, yielding far better armor penetration than previous technologies.

No individual measure aside from troops on the ground or nukes is going to change the course of the war by itself.

The ammunition is very effective at punching through the armor. But the Ukrainians will be fucked when in 5 years Leukemia in children is skyrocketing

Ammo is ammo. It's better than hurling stones.

According to the article, studies in places where the ammunition has been used "indicated that the existence of depleted uranium residues dispersed in the environment does not pose a radiological hazard to the population of the affected regions."

What effect does it have on the grain?

Does not compute. Why should depleted uranium have any effect on grain production. Its strong radioactive components are, as the name says, depleted. The only worry is inhalation immediately following impact.

I think there's way too much misinformation about this and way too many people talking without a clue

Then again, shooting a gun inside is stupid, until someone is breaking in and trying to kill you.

Killing the opponent is the last resort in most developed countries.

If there's one country to trust with nuclear safety it's actually Ukraine. Capable engineers and scientists, understanding of institutional failure, and certainly not least memory of Chernobyl.

It's not about them. It's the children who find the spent ammo later.

This crap is the reason that there are birth defects spikes anywhere the US military operates.

Yes, Ukrainian soldiers on front line are worried about cancer and birth defects. They are rational human beings who hope to return to their homes and live long lives and grow healthy children, not some subhumans with only intent to kill, kill, kill, as you wish to think.

You will get cancer sooner by staying in the sun on a beach or anywhere.

Everyone should worry. Depleted uranium will contaminate large crop production areas and later these grains will be sold all around the world. Everybody will eat some.

Orcs

The only time before the Ukraine War that I saw this term used to refer to real human beings was on Stormfront

is this a /s or a fr moment

although the Ukrainians using such rounds in Ukraine also seem to regard other Ukrainians as subhuman

Yup, defence is definitely what they shouldn't do. Russia is obviously doing God's work here.

UK did it last time. But yeah, same shit under a different name.

The 500k homeless people in the US humbly accept and understand.

riGhT SidE oF hIsTOry: https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1698195427172945944?s=46&t=mO-5zqql6YG39RPsMYhC_Q

Yeah, I use threads like these to block users. Can't wait for lemmy to implement user level instance blocking like mastodon has.

Edit: don't downvote me, tell me what issue you have with this.

Maybe there are way more secrets in making armor with depleted uranium (and certainly other things layered in) than just shaping a shell with it?

They'll receive their first 14 M1A1 by Sept. 25. I don't think any foreign countries get the reactive armor except for the US.

The problem with depleted uranium isn't that it is poison to touch, but that it dissolves into the dirt and dust and poisons everything because people will, in fact, be breathing it in as an aerosol and drinking what gets in the water supply.

radiation asside it's a highly toxic heavy metal yes it will cause health defects

the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust

Literacy rates in capitalist nations continue to plummet.

I was just gonna say, you're correct, and I'm pretty sure there are WAY more toxic chemicals and debris on a battlefield. Think of all the older structures built with asbestos products being destroyed, for example...

Last I read, alot of the effects Vets ended up with from Iraq, were from the immense open pits they burnt their trash in.

more concerned about DU slicing through the dna of ukrainian children for years after the war like in Iraq

Wine cave warriors feel so very tough watching death and killing on their screens.

Bloodthirsty liberal Nazis cheering for generations of genetic deformity to prolong a pointless war between two fascist capitalist forces

Imagine having a brain so smooth that you think abrams are going to fare any better than the leopards.