Marjorie Taylor Green questions if Biden will send nuclear weapons to Ukraine

Marjorie Taylor Green is back in the spotlight after claiming that Joe Biden could send nuclear weapons to Ukraine next after he made the decision to supply Kyiv with cluster munitions earlier this month.

The decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs didn’t come to Biden very easily and he defended his choice to send the controversial weapon to Ukraine in an interview with CNN’s Farad Zakaria shortly after the news became public.

“It took me a while to be convinced to do it. But the main thing is, they either have the weapons to stop the Russians now from there, keep them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas, or they don’t. And I think they needed them," Biden said. 

Biden went on to explain that Ukraine was facing a shortage of artillery shells and that the cluster bombs supplied by Washington could help bridge the gap between Kyiv’s current needs and a time when its allies could provide Ukraine with more artillery shells. 

Officials announced the United States would be sending cluster bombs to Kyiv on July 7th as part of a larger military aid package according to NBC News but the move wasn’t without its detractors in Congress, chief among them Georgia’s Majorie Taylor Greene. 

Greene has been fiercely critical of Biden for sending military and financial aid to Kyiv, remarking at one point in a March interview with 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl that “Ukraine is not the 51st state of the United States.”

The Georgia Congresswoman’s opposition to Biden sending cluster munitions to Kyiv was no different than her previous resistance to aiding the Ukrainians, except this time she cloaked her dismay in the guise of her humanitarian spirit. 

“Cluster munitions are brutal, inhumane weapons that cause lasting harm to civilians,” Greene wrote in a July 13th tweet that was posted with a video of the Congresswoman addressing concerns she had with the country’s National Defense Authorization Act. 

Greene was introducing an amendment to get cluster munitions or their technology blocked from being supplied or sold to Ukraine and wasn’t wrong in her statement cluster bombs can cause lasting harm to civilians, going through some false stats. 

The Georgia Congresswoman explained the dud rate of cluster bombs was between 2% and 40% but a statement from the Pentagon reported on by the New York Times shows the weapons being sent to Ukraine have “a failure rate of 2.35 percent or less.”

Cluster bombs have been banned by some 124 countries under a United Nations treaty and Greene claimed the United States was a party to this treaty, which prohibits all use, production, transfer, or stockpiling of the weapons according to the treaty’s website. 

“The US is a part of the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of these weapons,” Greene added. “Sending them to Ukraine is a clear escalation.” A statement that very well could be true. 

Unfortunately, Greene had her facts a little mixed up. The United States is not a party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, nor is Ukraine or Russia according to the treaty’s website. But these weren’t the parts of Greene’s statement that made headlines.

It was the Georgia Congresswoman’s remarks about Biden sending a different class of banned weapons to Ukraine that made her look foolish, suggesting that the president might send chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons to Ukraine. 

“What’s next? Chemical or biological weapons, nuclear weapons? Again this is an escalation of war that does not belong in our nation's funding bill for the Department of Defense,” Greene explained. 

It’s obvious Greene’s claim was meant to shock but there is little evidence Biden would ever send chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons to Ukraine. Greene’s hyperbole is just another example showing how unfit the Congresswoman is to hold office.