America’s announcement yesterday to send cluster bombs to Ukraine to help ‘our side’ against the Russians has been met with many different opinions and posed many moral and political questions.

Firstly, and perhaps most importantly; are cluster bombs any less vile, evil, nasty, indiscriminate, vicious and illegal (in most countries) if you refer to them as ‘cluster munitions’ as it has become suddenly ‘the thing to do’? Cluster bombs are deployed by scum-ridden dictatorships and gap-toothed mercenaries, whereas cluster ‘munitions’ are up there with Louis Vuitton handbags, Moët & Chandon and Wimbledon as the epitome of gentility and aspirational desirability.

Change the name all ya want, cluster bombs cluster fuck! That’s their job. Causing major, widespread (literally) death, destruction and fuckage. And best of all; there’s always some of the cluster left unexploded for later on. Just lying around waiting for future generations to ‘enjoy’. As they go off under foot/car/baby-carriage.

Most decent countries in the world have pledged never to deploy such things. Including nations like Great Britain, so noble as to deplore such weaponry, but not so stupid as to stop making a living selling them to less wholesome countries, like to Saudi Arabia, who have used them in Yemen. But three countries who haven’t agreed to ban them are Russia (no fucking surprise there), Ukraine (they never previously had any so jury’s out on them) and America (questions of morality don’t count if asked between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans). So Russia have been using them and now, courtesy of America, Ukraine will too.

The usual arguments that such bombs are indiscriminate if falling near civilian populations hopefully won’t count as you can’t see Ukraine bombing its own people. They’ll presumably only use them in ‘Russian only’ areas.

Oh, that’s ok then. Indiscriminate killing doesn’t count if its against poor Russian kids, dragged away from college and forced onto the front line without pause for question, debate or appeal.

And personally, I have issues questioning ‘war’ on any ‘moral issues’. Because war is bringing death to other people. If that is in any way acceptable in any situation then you’re either an awful person or a politician.

The whole thing is a cluster-fuck, now they’ve just made it official.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx