Comments by "cosmosofinfinity" (@cosmosofinfinity) on "Biden Defends Sending Cluster Bombs To Ukraine" video.

  1. I feel like this logic is sort of like saying "we are getting nuked, but it would be wrong if we fired nukes back" The whole point of nuclear deterrence, or deterrence of any sort, is that everything is fair game if it's in retaliation. That if one makes the decision to make an attempt to kill, they should prepare to BE killed. One sword keeps another in its sheath. One having a gun means the other keeps theirs in their holster. In that sense, just Ukraine merely having these may do a lot of good, even if they don't use them; it will give Russia second thoughts of if another attack is worth it. Deterrence aside, self-defense is justified. It is the same act of violence, yet it is virtuous because it is a strike against the attacker in order to get them to STOP attacking, which they initiated. It is violence to end violence. That's what Ukraine's war is. They stop once Russia stops. Russia, just like anyone else on the individual scale, gets no sympathy for receiving what they dish out. Sympathy is only for the families that get lost in the process because their leader got them involved as sacrificial lambs and pawns in their chess games. But Russia is the one sending them there, and the blame is squarely on them if they get slaughtered. And Ukraine has been more than a class act thus far, returning Russian corpses to the grieving Russian families that Russian forces don't even care to retrieve. Does this set a bad precedent, like you say? Absolutely. But Russia's the one who set the precedent. Cluster bombs were already being used, just on one side. Now it has been equalized. Ukraine and Russia are both killers now, it's just a matter of who kills for the nobler reason, and if Ukraine will use these cluster bombs as atrociously as Russia does, which has yet to be seen. And it's not like America has any moral authority left to lose anyway after Vietnam and Iraq, other than "at least we aren't Russia".
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  2. Plus Ukraine has been a class act up to this point (giving Wagner corpses back to their grieving families when Wagner themselves won't even bother retrieving them, just as one example I heard just today), so I imagine they will use these responsibly and take them seriously. As far as warcrimes go, Russia has been the one doing them willy nilly, so warcrimes being done to them to a far lesser degree is more than fair game, it once again skews AGAINST Ukraine, who continues to fight for their very survival while Russia is just playing chess and gambling with the lives of their people for pointless conquest
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