US Uses Kiev To Clean Inventory Of Banned Cluster Bombs

US manufactured cluster bombs are hard to sell because they have been banned in so many countries, hence the Pentagon is only too glad to unload them on Ukraine, former Pentagon analyst and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski said.

The Biden administration last week announced that it was providing Ukraine with cluster munitions in a move widely criticized by human rights activists, and opposed by some US lawmakers. On Monday, Congressman Matt Gaetz said he will co-sponsor a US defense budget amendment that would ban the United States from transferring cluster munitions to Ukraine or any other country.

"The Pentagon's interest seems to be in getting rid of stockpiled munitions, and these cluster bombs are honestly difficult to get rid of for profit as so many nations have banned them," Kwiatkowski said. "From a US military industrial perspective, the consequence is the Pentagon and its contractors will get clear old inventory... to design and sell more profitable new weapons that serve a similar military purpose - to terrorize populations and slow a military advance."