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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, America's voice at the United Nations, usually chooses her words carefully. "We have seen videos of Russian forces moving exceptionally lethal weaponry into Ukraine, which has no place on the battlefield," she told the general assembly last year. "That includes cluster munitions and vacuum bombs - which are banned under the Geneva conventions." The speech can be read on the official website of the US mission to the UN. But it comes with a neat metaphor for how messy diplomacy can be. The transcript of Thomas-Greenfield's remarks now has the words "which has no place on the battlefield"…
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