POTUS's virtue has gone above and beyond then because we are sending
Taiwan the
VOLCANO battlefield mining system.
We didn't sign all parts of the OTTAWA Treaty, and this is an example of how we got around it (As we do have the anti-personnel canisters for ourselves.) on the
non-proliferation issue by
NOT sending Taiwan the anti-personal canisters we'll instead we'll be sending them
ONLY the anti-tank ones. Which fulfills our obligations. You can read the rest for yourselves.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/us...enser-systems/
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/tai.../17/2003792745
So, with that in mind, we could send the same system to the Ukraine, and nobody would be offended or bothered. Russia used them to open the Campaign and they were dropping anti-personnel as well.
There is a "
tingling sensation" on the web that they may try to slip it into the most recent
$2+ Billion-dollar aid package.
All I'm saying there are
loopholes and we're exploiting them on the "
non-proliferation" side. I would not be surprised if we send them there by Spring or early Summer. Don't kind yourselves if we're doing for Taiwan (And pissing China for it.) Ukraine isn't a reach either.
Whether you like "
Uncle Joe" or not and I don't care either way, he's done more than the last two Presidents
combined to get weapons to the Ukraine and align NATO plus the same can be said about Taiwan going even further back. For China systems like
VOLCANO, F-16V and ABRAMS were "
Redlines" WELL we've made them,
"
GREENLINES"
You have to remember he had
40 years in the Senate through the
Cold War and beyond. In Putin he sees Stalin and the Soviet Union, with Xi Ping it's Mao and Communist China. and he's "
spitting in their eyes" right now.
Just food for thought in a neutral biased way.
Regards,
Pat
