Cluster bombs

Now that Putin is being embarrassed by the slow progress of his troops in Ukraine, he's using cluster bombs to soften up resistance ...

[cluster bomb] that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles ....

Because cluster bombs release many small bomblets over a wide area, they pose risks to civilians both during attacks and afterwards. Unexploded bomblets can kill or maim civilians and/or unintended targets long after a conflict has ended, and are costly to locate and remove.

Cluster munitions are prohibited for those nations that ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2008. The Convention entered into force and became binding international law upon ratifying states on 1 August 2010, six months after being ratified by 30 states. As of 10 February 2022, a total of 123 states have joined the Convention, as 110 states parties and 13 signatories.

Biden has said we can't help Ukraine by fighting with them, because that might lead to WW3, to world-wide nuclear war. I just realized that argument makes no sense .... is that not exactly where we will be if Putin decides he wants, for instance, Poland too? Will we not honor our NATO committment to fight with Poland because it might lead to a scary place? Putin is crazy ... we are already in that scary place.