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Jeff Abramson
@jeffabramson
Arms trade, landmines, cluster munitions, conventional weapons, corruption and other things that should not be, or should be better controlled. Views my own.
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Breaking with current policy, Biden admin appears to be sending landmines to #Ukraine that must not be treaty compliant... that #Ukraine would also use/want them breaks their treaty commitments @minefreeworld @banminesusa washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
www.washingtonpost.com Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy The controversial White House move to send Kyiv land mines comes as Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine threaten to overwhelm front-line defenses. 1/ it's a difficult day to wake up in America on the issues I care about knowing how the first Trump administration handled many topics... a shortish 🧵, highlighting many @ForumArmsTrade resources 👇
Looking forward to digging in on this. Also see that @ForumArmsTrade newsletter has flagged too x.com/ForumArmsTrade…
Can I say how frustrating it is that @StateDeptPM has an ongoing pattern of burying controversial arms sales notifications on a Friday afternoon (and before a long weekend)!! 😡
More than $2 billion combined #FMS notified to #SaudiArabia and #UAE today. We'll update our resource pages over the weekend, but as background see:View quoted post on X
* US-Saudi arms page - forumarmstrade.org/us-saudi-arms.…
* FMS Notification tracker - forumarmstrade.org/major-arms-sal…
dsca.mil/major-arms-sal…
