As US President Joe Biden arrives in the UK ahead of the NATO summit in Lithuania this week, questions loom over his decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions for its counteroffensive, as well as Kyiv's push for membership to the alliance.
They are bound by the 2008 convention banning the use of all cluster munitions. The subtext of the statements by the UK, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and others is, effectively,"we'd rather they were not on the battlefield, but we recognise their necessity, we note their low dud rate, and we need to see Putin fail".
A bigger threat to that unity could come from substantive discussions on Sweden's accession to the alliance. Turkey has objections, as does Hungary. Sources say these objections can be overcome soon.
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