What are the anti-personnel landmines the US is sending to Ukraine and why are they banned by more than 150 countries? (news.sky.com)

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

Ukraine already violated the treaty and have been using antipersonnel mines, they must just be close to out of USSR leftover stock. Russia not being a party to the treaty have also been using them the whole time. This isn't a very substantial change besides getting Biden's fingers directly in another crime against humanity, dude just loves killing people holden-bloodfeast

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Why negotiate peace like an asshole when you could turn Ukraine into Cambodia instead?

[+] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee -9 points 2 days ago

Why turn Ukraine into Cambodia when you could just order your troops to go home instead....?

The whole wanting Ukraine as a buffer state doesn't really make sense when you're just annexing the buffer territory anyways.

[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Russia doesn't want to annex Ukraine, and they have never stated as such. I don't know where you people got confused.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee -5 points 1 day ago

Have you told them that? Because they have already officially annexed 4 different oblast.....

[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

They haven't, they are securing territory in a war, which isn't annexation.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee -2 points 1 day ago

Lol, and America's military is only used to spread freedom......

You guys are just pissing on each other and calling it rain.

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago

Right, they're even holding elections there!

[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

They're over seeing elections held by a different government. I know you uke supporters hate facing reality but those are different countries now. Your guys did a genocide and the victims decided to be different countries instead of just dying.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

They're certainly not holding elections in Ukraine, but the regions under Russian control very much did have elections.

[-] JustVik@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even if that were the case, this is not a reason to destroy millions of people more. People's lives matter the most. Russia definitely does not kill anyone unarmed and does not torture in these territories. And Russia has stated many times that it does not want to seize the whole of Ukraine.

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