With the threat of Russia on their doorstep, five nations are bolstering their defences by turning to a tactic the world tried to ban

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have announced they will leave the Ottawa Convention of 1997, which prohibits anti-personnel landmines. Later in June, all five states are expected to give the United Nations formal notice of their withdrawal, allowing them to manufacture, stockpile and deploy such munitions from the end of the year. Together, they guard 2,150 miles of Nato’s frontier with Russia and its client state of Belarus.

Military planners are already working out which expanses of European forest and lake land would be planted with these deadly devices, laden with high explosives and shrapnel, if Vladimir Putin were to mass his forces against the alliance.

  • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comBannedEnglish
    121·
    6 months ago

    Russia who still fights with meat wave attacks

    Here we go again with the literal Nazi propaganda of the “human meat wave Asiatic hordes”.

      • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comBannedEnglish
        102·
        6 months ago

        What part of the modern drone footage sounds like meat wave to you, Nazi apologist?

        • realitista@lemmy.world
          211·
          6 months ago

          I know, don’t believe my lying eyes, right? And the Nazis were the ones defending against an invading force that was committing genocide against their people. Got it. Now you can show your comment to Putin’s goon running the operation so you can claim you earned your daily ration of mush.

          • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comBannedEnglish
            8·
            6 months ago

            You can argue that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is immoral without resorting to Nazi propaganda, but you refuse to do so because you’d rather dehumanise Russians.