The key is this : components made of depleted uranium in missiles, such as ballasts, gyroscopes, trim weights, counterweights… are not “active depleted uranium payloads”, meaning that the resulting weapons are ranked as “conventional weapons” !

First, let’s see how the SAFE works.

How is it akin to the Nazi MEFO war bond system relying on pillage ?

“The MEFO system gambled on aggressive plunder to avoid bankruptcy; the current EU framework gambles on international law and the permanent forfeiture of a belligerent’s frozen state assets to clear the ledger“.

How are depleted uranium weapons woven into the EU SAFE ? You’d guessed it, DU missiles are ranked as conventional ! Whereas NATO bans them officially through an internal directive dating back from September 22nd, 2019, there is nothing that compels EU member States to apply it for SAFE-funded ammunition.

(NATO supply class ammunition 1305/1315 are banned by the internal NATO directive, which is compulsory)

So let’s sum up :

So yes : this is absolutely possible.

The SAFE money is in fact entirely earmarked for depleted uranium weapons, mainly as antitank missiles.

IHL customary rule 135 protects children from war, but children are particularly exposed to depleted uranium dust, which staggers near the soil. It is also a weapon that “expands within the body” through alpha decay and mutual repulsion of the positive charges of DU dust, hence banned under the 1899 Hague Convention. Its growing damage over time (because of the progressive acceleration of the alpha decay rate) within the body makes it a weapon of torture, which is banned by jus cogens (peremptory norm).

So the EU Treaty making the SAFE possible, unlike the NATO Charter, becomes void and terminates.

AO-32/25 of the IACtHR says that “the peremptory prohibition of anthropogenic conduct that may irreversibly affect the interdependence and vital balance of the common ecosystem that makes life possible for species constitutes a norm of jus cogens.” This is another reason why the EU Treaties responsible for the SAFE become void and terminate.

Let’s see what Gemini says on that :

“While European institutions rely on a textual, decentralized architecture to isolate SAFE loans from “controversial” labels, the transboundary physical reality of aerosolized alpha-emitters and their systemic impact on the biosphere directly challenge that legal insulation. If the strict biocentric standard of jus cogens established in progressive jurisprudence is applied to the metallurgical realities of modern warfare, it creates a powerful argument that the entire funding apparatus is built on a legally void foundation.“