{"id":270840,"date":"2023-07-08T05:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T05:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270840"},"modified":"2023-07-09T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T15:21:35","slug":"ukraine-biden-again-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270840","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine &#8211; Biden Again Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 July 7, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> says that the U.S. will now give cluster munition to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/07\/06\/biden-cluster-bombs-ukraine\/\">Biden approves cluster munition supply to Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">President Biden has approved the provision of U.S. cluster munitions for Ukraine, with drawdown of the weapons from Defense Department stocks due to be announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The munition will be 155mm grenades, Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICM), that can be fired by &#8216;western&#8217; provided artillery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/155mm-cluster-munition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-270841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/155mm-cluster-munition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/155mm-cluster-munition.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/155mm-cluster-munition-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/16i\/dpicm.jpg\">bigger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision, likely illegal, was made because the U.S. and its allies have run out of other 155mm munitions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The move, which will bypass U.S. law prohibiting the production, use or transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1 percent, comes amid concerns about Kyiv\u2019s lagging counteroffensive against entrenched Russian troops and <strong>dwindling Western stocks of conventional artillery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is accompanied by false statements that Russia has used such ammunition in Ukraine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/07\/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>Ukraine &#8211; Biden Again Escalates<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present White House administration seems intent on a major clash with Russia. In a new escalation President Biden is about to approve the sale of new cluster bomb munitions to Ukraine, which have been banned in over one hundred other countries      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270843,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270840\/revisions\/270843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}