Could Trump save Ukraine?
Spectator (UK)NOV 2024
Biden Approves Sending Anti-Personnel Mines to Ukraine
Above: Police experts and rescuers load onto a special truck, a fragment of a downed Russian hypersonic missile Zircon, which struck a five-storey residential building in Kyiv during a "massive" aerial barrage on November 17, 2024. Image copyright: Sergei Supinksky/AFP via Getty Images
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Unlike those mines that Russia has indiscriminately spread across Ukraine to devastating effect, the mines provided by the US for Ukraine's use will be "non-persistent," and will help them better protect their sovereign territory from Russian aggression.
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By his own admission, Biden has said the use of mines is reckless as they often harm civilians to a much greater extent than any military impact. Biden seems to have no problem contradicting himself when it comes to policy.
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