People saw what happened in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and actually decided that it’s good to do it again. Holy fucking christ.

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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…

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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.

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Ukraine has too

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I mean the Russians have been using antipersonel mines for most of the conflict

And that is still a war crime that deserves criticism

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26 points

No people. Western Europeans

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Falkland Islands too. I think they only recently cleared the entire place of land mines.

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Fuck I’m for arming them in general, but this is…

Why is the manufacture of these things even allowed?

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Lmao the same person spouting Uyghur genocide shit in another thread also supports Ukraine what a shocker

Shut the fuck up liberal

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They gave up their nukes, and the Russian rhetoric (not that I expect anybody other than a few yt radicalized chuds believes it) sounds pretty genocidal. Plus they did kind of invade, in what does not appear to be either a class war or intervention in ongoing violent genocide.

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Gonna be a lot of legless Ukrainian children in about 10 years huh

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They’ll probably use them in kursk mostly, I would guess

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They don’t care about Ukrainians either.

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18 points

Scorched earth, scorched earth, everywhere

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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…

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The children; they yearn for the mines.

(Halfway stealing someone else’s bit, acknowledging maothelawn)

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64 points

Cool instead of doing anything good in their last days the Biden administration is doing even more warcrimes sweet.

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46 points

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”

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26 points

They’re reaching across the aisle

between the White House and hell.

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To be fair its not much of a reach.

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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.

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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

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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.

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a promise kept Jack

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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.

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Rules-Based Order!™️

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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.

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To be fair; this war only happened because treaties are best used as toilet paper.

But also fuck anyone who uses these

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