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      US to Begin Sending Controversial Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine

      Peace groups have long campaigned for a ban on DU munitions

      Common Dreams staff
      Sep 02, 2023

      The Biden administration will, for the first time, send controversial armor-piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, according to Reuters.

      The munition can be fired from US Abrams tanks, which are expected to arrive in Ukraine in the coming weeks.

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      Tanks for Nothing: On What Can't Be Won on the Ukraine Battlefield

      Under the guise of turning the century around, we underwrite violence in faraway lands and thereby dodge the actual challenges of changing our own culture.

      Andrew Bacevich
      Feb 13, 2023

      “To defend civilization, defeat Russia.” Writing in the unfailingly bellicose Atlantic, an American academic of my acquaintance recently issued that dramatic call to arms. And lest there be any confusion about the stakes involved, the image accompanying his essay depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Hitler mustache and haircut.

      Cast Putin as the latest manifestation of the Führer and the resurrection of Winston Churchill can’t be far behind. And, lo, more than a few observers have already begun depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the latest reincarnation of America’s favorite British prime minister.

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