CascadeOfLight [he/him]

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Cake day: May 13th, 2023

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  • Important to remember these are NOT cluster bombs, they’re missiles with multiple warheads.

    Cluster warheads spread hundreds of small bomblets over a wide area - “intended” as an antipersonnel weapon, but actually, due to the number that fail to detonate immediately but remain as a deadly explosive hazard hidden in foliage or under the soil for many decades, as an anti-civilian terror weapon. Their widespread use was (of course) pioneered by the US in Vietnam, who immediately afterwards handed their surplus to the IDF under the supervision of wholesome chungus Jimmy Carter.

    By comparison, the Iranian missiles deploy something like 20-60 warheads which separate high above the target, with a result more or less identical to firing multiple smaller conventional missiles. These are large warheads which are intrinsically more reliable than small bomblets, and while inevitably some will fail to detonate, they won’t disappear into the dirt for twenty years only to resurface under a farmer’s plough or in the hands of a curious child. They’re also made by Iran instead of the US, so their comparative failure rate presumably reflects that.

    Falsely equivocating between a missile that dispenses a few dozen conventional explosive warheads, and cluster warheads that deploy hundreds of fist-sized bomblets that will maim and kill civilians for decades after, is obvious and intentional propaganda by the USisraeli regime media. By blurring the line on what counts as a cluster weapon and who uses them, they obfuscate that the US and “Israel” are the most flagrant users of these horrific, criminal terror weapons.








  • May I Ask For One Final Thing?

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