Political impacts of Ukraine war

[KevinB]

I guess people on a border with Russia and watching what the new face (or really old phase) of infantry warfare looks like are applying the lessons learned.

I mean, personally I just thought several of them were completely stupid for joining in the first place.

Mines, like any inanimate object aren’t good or bad. They require human interaction to do anything.

Properly designed minefields are a very legitimate tool for Military operations. Sometimes due to operational requirements hasty minefields need to be employed as well - and those may not have ‘proper’ marking or mapping.

The difference is that decent nations are not:
1) Making mines that look like children’s toys or are in colors to attract children.
Fuck you Russia and China.

2) Haphazardly strewing mines with no tactical reasons but to solely attempt to use the mines as indiscriminate weapons.
Lots of countries in this boat.


3) Marking and clearing minefields as soon as the mines aren’t required for military purposes.

 

[HavokFour]

Add another one, though this should be the least surprising of any of them.

Zelensky signs decree to withdraw from Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines

"Russia is not a party to this Convention and is massively using mines against our military and civilians," lawmaker Roman Kostenko, secretary of the parliament's defense committee, said in a post on Facebook.

kyivindependent.com