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Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine
Reuters ^ | September 1, 2023 | Mike Stone

Posted on 09/02/2023 4:02:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

The Biden administration will for the first time send controversial armor-piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, according to a document seen by Reuters and separately confirmed by two U.S. officials.

The rounds, which could help destroy Russian tanks, are part of a new military aid package for Ukraine set to be unveiled in the next week. The munitions can be fired from U.S. Abrams tanks that, according to a person familiar with the matter, are expected be delivered to Ukraine in the coming weeks.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: abigmstake; ammunition; cianewsreuters; givesomebillions; munitions; nato; neoconsrejoice; snakeboner; tank; uranium; zeeperneoconsglee
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Bad news for all those Muscovite T-62s and T-54/55s rolling out of mothballs in Siberia and headed to Ukraine...


1 posted on 09/02/2023 4:02:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Finally! A way to dispose of our nuclear waste in a way that Liberals will approve of!


2 posted on 09/02/2023 4:05:25 AM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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It would appear that all assets on the Kuril Island (north of Japan) for Russia....have been moved to the mainland in the past month, and loaded for transfer to the war. This is probably the last of the 1980s-made equipment.

Even if you use conservative numbers, the bulk of tanks/APCs made in the past forty years have all been either taken/destroyed. If you were to judge the war ending tomorrow, it’d take several decades to rebuild the Russian military to any ‘glory’ status.


3 posted on 09/02/2023 4:11:25 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Liberty Ship
” nuclear waste “

ooo boy here we go ..

I can just hear putin saying “ they went first we just went bigger”
We should start some sort of pool on the date of the first big pop.
ya just have to love those war mongering elites ... they are a dedicated bunch.

4 posted on 09/02/2023 4:15:54 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Timber Rattler

Armor is not doing well in this war. Big targets, lots of defensive weapons systems.


5 posted on 09/02/2023 4:16:16 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Bd news for escalation


6 posted on 09/02/2023 4:17:50 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Timber Rattler

The globalists are outright giddy over this!


7 posted on 09/02/2023 4:18:35 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Highest Authority

One thing we shouldn’t forget is retaliation can come in many sneaky and underhanded ways.

Take COVID for example. The USSR was big on Bio-Warfare for decades before the CCP got good at it. They probably have a dozen new viruses laying around they could surreptitiously release on the west.


8 posted on 09/02/2023 4:24:25 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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Take COVID for example. The USSR was big on Bio-Warfare for decades before the CCP got good at it. They probably have a dozen new viruses laying around they could surreptitiously release on the west.

Because now the Russians can simply point at Fauci as evidence that the US government took the first step; they're responding to us.

Which is why Fauci can't be prosecuted fast enough.

9 posted on 09/02/2023 4:31:31 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones." - George Washington)
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To: Timber Rattler

I hope you neoCONs are happy about the birth defects that will happen to ukrainian babies for the next several decades because of “muh russia” you neoCONs are absolute scum. This is a needless war being escalated to hide the pedo family / deep state crimes in ukraine.


10 posted on 09/02/2023 4:37:02 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB

OTD in 2014 I said I could conquer Ukraine in just 2 weeks.

I never said which 2 weeks.

I remain a master strategist.

Putin Boasts of Being Able to Take Kiev in 2 Weeks

https://time.com/3259699/putin-boast-kiev-2-weeks/

11 posted on 09/02/2023 4:38:33 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Timber Rattler

That pic shows a HEAT (high explosive, anti-tank) round, not a depleted uranium sabot.


12 posted on 09/02/2023 4:40:46 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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I hope you neoCONs are happy about the birth defects that will happen to ukrainian babies

Ukrainian babies are being killed RIGHT NOW by russian rockets.

At least three children killed or injured on average daily in 500 days of war in Ukraine

https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/least-three-children-killed-or-injured-average-daily-500-days-war-ukraine

13 posted on 09/02/2023 4:42:13 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Timber Rattler

What’s next, chemical and biological munitions?


14 posted on 09/02/2023 4:43:49 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: tlozo

All children who would not have died if pedo pres. and his RINO nut hugging supporters hadn’t needlessly escalated the war. And still less than the number of American children killed / missing in Hawaii. Yet the neoCONS are obsessed with sending trillions to ukraine and stiffing desperate americans in hawaii. The birth defects in ukraine will last for decades. Only a truly sick, satanic, individual would do something like this. It’s unfortunate that there are still neoCON GW MORON followers in the republican party that never found a war they didn’t like.


15 posted on 09/02/2023 4:47:49 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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All children who would not have died if pedo pres. and his RINO nut hugging supporters hadn’t needlessly escalated the war.

LOL, right Zelensky "escalated" by invading...?

and stiffing desperate americans in hawaii.

Right, there is no more money in the US budget for Hawaii. They will get billion. Moronic

16 posted on 09/02/2023 4:51:08 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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[Only a truly sick, satanic, individual would do something like this.]

He (Putin) should have stayed on his side of the boarder.


17 posted on 09/02/2023 4:51:23 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Timber Rattler

Wonder if the DU was produced from any of that uranium that the U.S. has been importing from Russian suppliers.


18 posted on 09/02/2023 5:04:39 AM PDT by Hamiltonian
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Looks like we have GW MORON deep state bad actors promoting birth defects for Ukrainians because “putin bad”.

Sickening and shameful. Zero excuse to use depleted uranium, even if you support the insane escalation of this war. Sick stuff.


19 posted on 09/02/2023 5:14:37 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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This is a needless war being escalated to hide the pedo family / deep state crimes in ukraine.

exactly

20 posted on 09/02/2023 5:30:09 AM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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