The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.
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The problem is that it’s a heavy metal poison not that it’s radioactive.
the problem is both but the heavy metal is worse.
And lead, famously, isn’t a heavy metal. And neither is copper (used for jacks)
No no Ukraine is only allowed to eject invaders with the most pure tungsten rounds.
These decisions are being made by people who will not be having children with birth defects because of them
No you’re right our brave mujahideen fighters in Ukraine deserve the right to have their conscripts poison and maim their own children. They’ve got the uranium bullets and cluster bombs, but surely we’ve got some agent orange around here we can spare.
You understand that Ukrainians live in Ukraine and poisoning their children is bad
I can’t believe you are seriously arguing our “do not poison Ukrainian children” policy is evidence we do not care about Ukraine
Ask them whether a miniscule chance of light poisoning is preferable to getting abducted.
Or, as happened just recently in Germany, thrown down a bridge.
If you have another idea of how to get Russians to GTFO of Ukraine go ahead, present it at the UN, get your peace nobel price. In the mean time, STFU when people are defending themselves against an imperialist aggressor.
“Orcs”
Ew.
Do you think these rounds just magically disappear after they’re used? They’re going to continue to litter the land and cause generations of people completely uninvolved in the conflict to suffer from birth defects, lung damage, and cancer, as can be seen after its use in Iraq. No one is immune to depleted uranium. At this point you can just admit that you care more about killing Russians than you do defending Ukraine, consequences be damned.
had trouble spelling Russia, did ya? your brain isn’t worth saving. cringey reddit /r/worldnews phrases can fuck off forever into the pit.
edited because i realized i wasn’t on hexbear. so yea, that is the more polite version.
thank you for your service, cummunism
We all feel for you. Must suck to start a war and then lose it.
Ooc, Why do you think Russia invaded?
Easy: they think they are a superpower and that they can use their military to keep independent, neighbouring countries aligned with them politically in order to protect their geopolitical interests. They are not and they can’t.
And when you day “aligned geopoliticaly” what’s that exactly?
It means that government in a given country will side with Russia on international scene in order to protect their interests. Isn’t that obvious? Like Hungary is politically aligned with Russia but Germany isn’t.
I hope some U238 finds its way into your lungs, fascist scum.
It’s only a hazard if you are handling it all the time, or you hang out around old targets where there is a fuck ton of uranium dust just waiting to get stirred up. If it gets in your lungs, you are not going to be a happy camper after a few years. Even so, depleted uranium emits alpha particles which is the weakest form of radiation.
I don’t deny the fact that uranium dust is bad. The reasons why it is bad are usually left out of the all the articles that hate on it for the wrong reasons.
Hell, here in Colorado we have more issues with radon. As far as uranium is concerned, there are problems with rainwater runoff concentrating it from the old mines that we have, but that is about it. Of course that isn’t good, but it takes massive tailings piles from old mines to cause issues for groundwater and such.