Reply To: Russian Tensions
TS, now plays the game of victim. I remain unimpressed.
I have nothing to retract.
As a moderator if I have had a failing it has been being too tolerant of the name-calling, something I do not normally indulge in.
Can TS, say the same about the repeated slurs of the well past the sell-by-date humour, word-play on my name and the CIA?
I have made my position crystal clear on the use of DU in an earlier post. A risk is said to exist to civilians and they shouldn’t be used.
The campaign to ban their use should be supported.
I await Russia to signal the removal of their supply of DU weaponry
https://tass.com/defense/1036958
“The use of depleted uranium ammunition does not violate any international treaties” Tass cited in its report
I have no idea if they have been used in Ukraine by Russia. Nor does TS. I can only hope they have not and will not. I don’t sympathise with the politics of tit-for-tat.
Russia is conflating DU ammunition with a dirty bomb and WMDs in a propaganda battle which TS is also promoting with his terms such as radioactive hellhole.
It was first reported back in January by Konstantin Gavrilov, head of Russia’s delegation on the OSCE forum on security cooperation, claimed that Ukraine could arm their German-supplied Leopard 2 tanks with ‘uranium core armour-piercing’ shells.