Everyone uses CBU's. Not a big deal. The reports that they were used on civilians disturbs me a bit, but civilians is a legitimate target in war, not barred by the Geneva convention. Break the will of the civilians and you break the will of the people to fight back.
An example is the US firebombing German civilians in WWII.
The funny thing is, no one gives the US credit these days for carefully working around civilians. They don't have to do this. They just do it because they care. So they use more expensive bombs in place of cheaper ones that could possibly do collateral damage.
Russia has no such qualms. They don't have to either.
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