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First tweet (they deleted it): https://archive.is/d3jJT
Second tweet (still up and getting called out in the comments): https://archive.is/gN8OY
I applaud you for bringing more than a screenshot.
Very cool.
Here's the Archive.org source for the deleted tweet: http://web.archive.org/web/20230326055211/https://twitter.com/Terror_Alarm/status/1639710100075040770
The more archives, the merrier.
Remember kids: War crimes are only for losers. Moral of the story? Don't lose wars. You can always rewrite history later.
Where is the warcrime here? I must have missed the geneva convention on only using all natural vegan munitions.
Their bio actually begins “Non-State-Affiliated Agenda-Free News Media”
Principles hinder victory.
Wasn't one of the whole things about gulf war syndrome was the fact that depleted uranium shells were used?
One of my colleagues a few years back "had" gulf war syndrome, he blamed the vaccine cocktails they were forced to have in short periods of time.
This was a few years back but I think he said they were lined up and had 10shots in the same day- all for various things.
I think this is one of the reasons that gws is argued, they can't blame a single origin and they all have different symptoms. But as we've learned from the totally safe and effective coof vaccine, maybe it was that cocktail of drugs they were forced to take?
That, or the chemical weapons burned in open air pits for days at a time, or just the random garbage that was burned the same way (including random chemicals, medical waste, batteries, etc.).
They've got a burn pit registry for Gulf War II now, and people exposed to them have a range of diseases from asthma to weird cancers.
The military exposes troops to endless amounts of toxic shit without a care because most of them don't get sick until they leave the service. Out of sight, out of mind.
And then the VA has a habit of essentially trying to finish off some of the retired veterans through either ineptitude and/or via nearly deliberate mistreatment.
Friend of mine was on a nuclear sub and he said the birth defects of their kids was off the charts.
I know of a few that also got affected by what I think were Anthrax vaccinations during the Iraq war. Or maybe it was for Avian flu. Either way, the military has a long history of forcing poorly tested and experimental stuff on military personnel.
There's also a fair number of cases of military facilities using rather toxic materials that would sometimes get into water supplies and such.
It is of course toxic because it is a heavy metal. But it's probably no worse for you than lead dust.
Lead doesn't emit radiation like uranium does.
Uranium emits a very small amount of radiation, its half life is 4.5 billion years. Its acute chemical toxicity is way more threatening. Same with plutonium.
Now fission products from a nuclear explosion are entirely different. Strontium 90, for example has a half life of 29 years, so it's ~150 million times more radioactive than uranium, and it's right under calcium in the periodic table, so it will happily deposit itself in your bones and cook you from the inside.
DU is only a radiation problem if your tank get's penetrated, or if you lick the round. In the case of the former, you have bigger issues, and in the case of the latter, you deserve it.
Well, that and fragments entering the body through the air, water, or soil. Something that occurs in high frequency when you use the DU rounds as intended.
Amazing that people can watch a round disintegrate on impact and think "No possible environmental contamination here, conservation of mass is a myth, the grunts must just be licking the shells again'
Marines consider it a late night snack.
Only when they run out of crayons
It adds flavoring.
Who said the radiation was the problem?
Uranium is horrible chemically, too, is it not?
Newest long-rod penetrators actually have a industrial diamond tip over a tungsten carbide cap over the tungsten rod.
Does that make any sense? Wouldn't the diamonds on the tips just shatter on impact? Diamond is very hard but very brittle.
All of this is classified (what I know has been oopsie -daisied to the public), but the theory is that the diamond acts as a sacrificial abrasive layer, allowing the carbide to push deeper before it abrades.
This is also all stopgap and bullshittium, because the Army refuses to either upgrade the gun on the M1A2, or just develop a new tank.