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Depleted uranium is a war crime. Poisons land and people, causes birth defects, leads to abnormal function in the brain, kidneys, liver, etc, leads to certain cancers. It's easy to make the call of sending these munitions overseas when it won't be your own populace suffering the consequences.
Unfortunately, in war, there are often no good answers. This time, it seems to be a question of continuing to use standard munitions, of which Ukraine is guzzling by the ton in order to repel the Russians, or use more effective, but more dangerous in the long term, weapons that could have a greater effect in the war effort. A choice of more people dying now or dying later.
Ukraine has seen its successes in pushing the Russians back, but it needs every edge it can get when fighting a nation several times its size.
I agree. It's a tough choice. I stand with Ukraine in this conflict. I just find it interesting that the US, with the largest supply and most advanced military tech in the world, just says "here's some irradiated ammo, go ham"
More realistically Ukraine has been requesting them for a while and the US finally gave in since the UK gave them some recently.
When you get an Abrams it comes with DU penetrators. Same as with Challenger which is why Britian has already supplied such weapons. You can't supply a tank and not supply its ammunition.