Oh, it is the mines treaty.
Yeah, it is great to not use (anti personnel or otherwise) mines, until you find yourself in an actual war, then those things are extremely useful, as proven again and again in Ukraine.
Good thing that land mines all just disappear once hostilities end
Landmines can cost as little as $1 to make, but $2,000 to remove. Countries totally remove them all once the conflict is over.
I grew up watching news stories of children and poor rural people who would lose limbs or their lives to land mines. This is disgusting. Global north smuglords will never be able to understand.
Like the one good thing the British royal family ever did was give Princess Diana a platform and resources to end/remove landmines. It’s like that commercial about a landmine going off during a soccer game.
I love the episode of DS9 where the Feds
erationare like “let’s mine the wormhole!” and everyone thinks it’s a great idea. I was like “wait, isn’t that a war crime?” when I watched it.Their monstous, civilian-killing weapons of fascism; our glorious, freedom-defending defensive grid.
This whole thread is pure brainworms
1992 was an incredibly optimistic time. The Cold War was over … everyone had happily realised that Western liberal democracy was the final form of human government
The treaty doesn’t even ban all mines, just the fucking stupidly dangerous kinds.
everyone had happily realised that Western liberal democracy was the final form of human government
“everyone”
“Everyone” (who matters (white people))
History was over, how were we supposed to know things would keep happening
So close, yet so far.
And yes, the Baltics, famously sovereign countries that aren’t just Nazis for hire.
Just because USA made sure yetsin stood, made sure putin is his successor, does not mean they have to admit any responsibility when things go bad. Fucking everyones business up does not mean I have to held liable for consequences. With great power comes no responsibility. Oh BTW Russia is bad for making Trump the president
Libs sure do love ignoring the basic fact that the choices of those without power are constrained by those with power.
This is what happens when you either deny the existence of class or think class is an aesthetic.
Redditors are not beating the allegations any time soon, I see.
The “success” of the post-Soviet Baltic states is the ultimate case of “line go up thinking.” Yes, they had a massive brain drain and QoL factors all caved out, but they got “fiscally responsible” and the GDP per capita shot up due to mass wealth concentration.
The Baltics managed to achieve a high GDP per capita in a less direct way than the Gulf slaver states. If you just don’t count poor people, then your GDP per capita is going to enormous. In case of the Baltics, those too poor to benefit the stats just happened to leave the millisecond they had the chance to.
