People saw what happened in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and actually decided that it's good to do it again. Holy fucking christ.
From memory (so maybe wrong) former Yugoslav states also suffer from land mines. Land mines are one of those rare "yeah, no, fuck that" things that every country agrees is just evil. So the US supports using them. Like chemical weapons that the US has given various leaders/nations over the years. What a great lover of humanity our nation is...
I mean the Russians have been using antipersonel mines for most of the conflict. It's not some new thing for the area. The UXO/landmine problem is already locked into the area for decades.
I mean the Russians have been using antipersonel mines for most of the conflict
And that is still a war crime that deserves criticism
Ukraine has too
No people. Western Europeans
Falkland Islands too. I think they only recently cleared the entire place of land mines.
This is 100x worse than ATACMS. This shit is a scourge on humanity. The fact that the US is not a signatory of the Ottowa Treaty is tantamount to a warcrime in and of itself. Ukraine itself i a signatory to the Ottowa Treaty and it should be illegal for it to receive shipment.
Ukraine itself i a signatory to the Ottowa Treaty and it should be illegal for it to receive shipment.
Ukraine use both this and cluster mines since the beginning of conflict. They even use that small brightly coloured mines on civilian centers in Donbas where they are picked up by children and explode.
To be fair; this war only happened because treaties are best used as toilet paper.
But also fuck anyone who uses these
Gonna be a lot of legless Ukrainian children in about 10 years huh
They'll probably use them in kursk mostly, I would guess
They don't care about Ukrainians either.
Scorched earth, scorched earth, everywhere
looks at climate
Appears to be the doctrine; yes.
Look, Jack, we're going to cause global dimming by filling the air with particulate matter of all the people who get exploded. And that's how we'll solve climate change.
Yeah I'm reading this as they're going to shit up southwestern Russia with these things as much as possible while they're still invading it. Awful...
The children; they yearn for the mines.
(Halfway stealing someone else's bit, acknowledging maothelawn)
yeah I was complaining yesterday about the shortage of leftover landmines in random places, glad to see the US taking action on important topics like this.
a promise kept Jack
Cool instead of doing anything good in their last days the Biden administration is doing even more warcrimes sweet.
I remember liberals acting all terrified about what horrors Trump might unleash on the world as his previous term was coming to an end. But once again, Biden has proven to be far worse, trying to speedrun as many atrocities as he can while still holding the reigns like the petty war criminal that he is. And the libs just praise him.
Yeah now that the election is over they can be as blatant as they want with zero electoral repercussions cause the American political memory is that of a goldfish
Hey, no, just because the democrats are doing it when they don't have to doesn't meant they want to. They are just "easing the transition"
They're reaching across the aisle
between the White House and hell.
To be fair its not much of a reach.
And of course ghouls on lemmyworld are arguing why this is a good thing. I'm so glad I defederated them
Biden has a steadfast commitment to Ukraine's fight against future generations of Ukrainians.
This is to punish Ukraine for losing yeah?
Activating the cursed capitalism lobe of my brain, it's creating a market for the mine-clearing NGOs of tomorrow
Just kidding they don't have that kind of foresight
we did it Joe! We saved the Soul of the Nation 
the government yearns for the mines
"If I can't have it, well then fuck you nobody can have it"
: ONLY I HAVE THE BRAINS TO RULE THE LYLAT SYS- I MEAN UKRAINE, JACK
now do a barrel roll jack
Spiteden
The horrors really never cease do they?
Malarkey
So no modern aircraft. Only 'protocols of the elders of Zion' larpers get those. Nothing that could fucking end this shit. No decapitation strike. Gotta keep the meat grinder going!
But land mines, sure, here's a bunch!
What the makes you think a 'decapitation strike' or 'modern aircraft' would end the conflict? You do realize Russia is an entire modern state and not just Putin? Just because you don't know other prominent Russian politicians doesn't mean they don't exist (and are also in favor of the conflict). It's a idealistic move at best, catastrophic escalation at worst.
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