<p>State Department spokesman Matthew Miller struggled with an update on Monday, calling the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war">war with Russia</a> a &#8220;strategic failure for Ukraine&#8221; — and then repeated the exact same statement after one of the journalists present tried to help him make a correction.</p>
<p>Miller made the misstep during a Monday briefing — just days after President Joe Biden had given the go ahead for the United States to send widely-banned cluster bombs to Ukraine.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Biden State Department spokesman Matthew Miller:</p>
<p>&quot;We believe the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4jZB62FN5c">pic.twitter.com/4jZB62FN5c</a></p>
<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1678463754894188550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;We believe the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine,&#8221; Miller said, and was abruptly corrected by a member of the press corps.</p>
<p>&#8220;Don’t you mean &#8216;a strategic failure for Russia?'&#8221; he asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I’m sorry — excuse me,&#8221; Miller said before immediately repeating, &#8220;— a strategic failure for Ukraine! Thank you for the correction!&#8221;</p>
<p>Miller&#8217;s briefing comes just days after the Biden administration green-lighted another $800 million aid package for Ukraine — which has stirred controversy because it is set to include <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-to-send-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine-bypassing-u-s-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cluster bombs</a>.</p>
<p>Cluster bombs have been banned by a number of nations, in part because they pose a risk to civilians. When cluster bombs explode, they send out showers of smaller &#8220;bomblets&#8221; that cannot be precisely targeted and could potentially land in areas where they were not intended to go.</p>
<p>The controversial munitions also pose a risk to soldiers on the ground because the bomblets don&#8217;t always detonate properly. This means that soldiers — whether on foot or in vehicles — have to be very careful when traveling through areas that have been bombed and should have bomb techs on hand to deal with any unexploded ordnance.</p>
<p>Biden&#8217;s plan to send cluster bombs to Ukraine raised enough red flags that members of his own party have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-express-reservations-about-biden-decision-to-send-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned against it</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Once you see what takes place, we know what takes place in terms of cluster bombs being very dangerous to civilians,&#8221; Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) told Jake Tapper on Sunday. &#8220;They don’t always immediately explode. Children can step on them. That’s a line we should not cross.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There is an international convention against [the] use of these cluster munitions that dates back to 2008,&#8221; Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) told &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; host Shannon Bream that same day. &#8220;And the reason the prohibition was put in place, as you have described, is that these are kinds of munitions that can lead to some downstream risks to civilians.&#8221;</p>

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