Depleted uranium, battlefields

A Russian official pointed out that depleted uranium munitions, and the depleted uranium armor in newer model Abrams tanks, will cause lasting danger in Ukraine.

I can't estimate whether depleted uranium munitions will injure as many Ukrainians as the Putin forces' weapons. But comparing the two is irrelevant, because they are independent problems.

I expect that the US government will use the fact that this comes from hypocritical Putin to pretend that the danger is just one of Putin's lies. He can't believe anything on his say-so lie, but this time what he said was accurate.

Putin does not care about Ukrainian lives. He might care about hypothetical Russians who might someday live on conquered Ukrainian territory. But what Putin thinks is a side issue. If future Ukrainian lives matter to us, we should push for the US to protect Ukraine from depleted uranium, regardless of what Putin thinks.

I saw a headline today that the US plans to give Ukraine the new Abrams tanks with depleted uranium in the armor.