WE’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE: The pattern is all too familiar to Ukraine. The Biden administration refuses to provide what Ukraine insists it needs to win, including tanks, F-16s, Patriot missiles, and in the latest case cluster bombs, only to relent when Ukraine’s battlefield position becomes more dire and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s red lines turn out to be bluster.

Today, as part of an $800 million arms package, President Joe Biden has approved the inclusion of thousands of cluster munitions in the form of artillery shells that can be fired from the 155 mm howitzers the United States has already provided Ukraine.

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