July 14—The very next day after the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Lithuania, cluster munitions were on the ground in Ukraine, having been delivered by the United States as a unilateral action. Since the U.S. first announced its plans to provide these weapons, on July 7, a week ago Friday, many denunciations have come forward, markedly from inside the United States, and also from a number of the 123 nations that signed the pact since 2008 against any use of cluster munitions. But, the top U.S. officials—President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and others—gave excuses and went ahead.
