Well, russia has killed civilians with no regard. And ukraine hasn't. So my stance is, unless ukraine starts killing civilians with cluster bombs, then don't see an issue with cluster munitions.
When that happens, my stance will be everyone is a piece of cr*p in this war and I won't support anyone any longer. But I doubt ukraine is gonna start doing that, its just in that hypothetical situation. To me, a war shouldn't escalate to where innocents die like russia has been doing against ukranians, but it doesn't make it right if both sides start doing it. Would come off very hypocritical to defend that and just an echo chamber if anyone thinks thats ok because one side does it now everyone can.
With that said, outside of this echo chamber of a forum section (it is a bit echoey chamber, even though I agree with most of it, some questionable opinions here so I avoid most of this section most of the time), most people outside here don't agree with it and agree overall with the national news (AU news, BBC etc) that it leads to a potential catastrophe for innocent lives more than already going on and escalates the war. But most also agree with my view point that as long as ukraine doesn't PURPOSELY indiscriminately start killing innocents, then its not much an issue currently. And so far it hasn't been an issue since apparently ukraine has already been using them already and has done their best to avoid any situation like that. Its only if they start purposely doing it, like russia is where I would be 100% against that, like most rational people.
With that said, I don't really like that US is starting to seemingly get desperate and doing russian-like tactics by sending ukraine the same weapons pretty much russia uses...but again, as long as innocents aren't targeted like russia does, its not really an issue.
So while I sound a bit back and forth with this, I lean more toward doing the best to avoid innocent lives by NOT supplying weapons that are banned in most countries. There is a good reason they are banned in over 100 countries after all. But then its not really an issue if used properly, but the thing is, they aren't usually used properly when things get desperate.
Then there is my own side opinion but not really one I'd want cause I want to live...but one that wants everything to keep escalating. If the war escalates enough, maybe the world will get nuked and all the human damage will eventually go away after 100s of thousands/millions of years, but what effects of a nuclear war would have on earth, I doubt scientists really know and we'd all be gone anyway so no one would know. But earth would be better without humans lol. Do more damage to the planet than any other species. I have a feeling this is what some really want but don't say it out loud. And there you go, my own questionable opinion lol
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