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Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine
(www.reuters.com)
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From what I've read depleted uranium is not proven to cause cancer, nor is it not proven (With the exception that you inhale it or eat it).
In Iraq it's still up to debate if it causes cancer or birth defects, since burning buildings and other burning stuff also causes a lot of nasty things to humans.
From what I've read they were also used in Bosnia, and they haven't had similiar effects to Iraq.
So let the Ukrainians have their depleted uranium.
The problem with depleted uranium isn't that it is poison to touch, but that it dissolves into the dirt and dust and poisons everything because people will, in fact, be breathing it in as an aerosol and drinking what gets in the water supply.
Sounds plausible, but wouldn't it cause the same types of effects in Bosnia if that were the case?
Yes
https://press.un.org/en/2002/unep124.doc.htm
In the follow follow up report they said that the risks of the DU dust causing any harm are minimal.
(EXTREME CW: the link is exactly what it says, but worse)
Listen. You just saw the report that proves health effects exist. It was right above you, yet youre still talking. Every time you reply, you just pick a single piece of the last argument to 'debunk', even if the rest of the comment answers your whole useless fucking question. By now I'm convinced youre only dragging out this discussion to waste our time. Ive seen at least 30 separate people pull this twitter-lib trick and not one is from our instance. Fuck off.
You know why wartorn countries keep mysteriously suffering birth defects? Because of people like you, who dance around and confuse anyone who tries to protest these weapons. Yet if i ever sent you a graphic picture of a deformed baby, whose defects entirely stem from uranium, you'd recoil in disgust and call me a psychopath. You couldn't look at the end-product of your beloved bomb, much less any bomb, without throwing up. You want to prove me wrong now, so fucking look.
Call me a propagandist. Tell me i photoshopped the fucking brain-sac onto that kid second-from-left. Look at the pictures until you feel something, or cease all feeling in your pointless shaking little body.
Next you'll try to criticize my "needless aggression." But you know where it came from. Fuck outta here
Here it is again, in case you missed or tried to ignore it.