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Nathan M. Greenfield

Dr. Nathan M. Greenfield is the North American correspondent for University World News. He is a visiting professor of sociology at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and a visiting professor of history at the Kyiv School of Economics, based in Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Greenfield is the author of several military histories on Canada's role in World War I and II, prisoners of war in Japan, Germany, and Canada, and the Hague and Geneva conventions on prisoners of war.

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Nathan Greenfield: Ukraine’s use of cluster munitions to evict Russian troops is both legal and just

by Nathan M. Greenfield
U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions triggered a debate that saw NATO allies, including the U.K., Canada, and Germany, as well as human rights groups, oppose the move. In the U.S., the decision was opposed by right-wing Republicans and the centrist Democratic leadership in Congress, while Republican senators like Lindsay Graham sided with the president. The arguments against Ukraine using cluster munitions betray a naivety, if not a disingenuousness, abou