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Tucker Carlson? You mean the guy who is funded by Russia? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/justin-trudeau-tucker-calrson-russian-propaganda
Killing is the point of land mines? Wow, Tucker must be a genius.
If the Russians stay in Russia, they'll be at no risk.
"Killing is the point" yeah thats what happens in war.
Russians can easily avoid getting blown up by them just by staying in their country.
And Ukrainian children can easily avoid getting blown up by them by just staying indoors
I dont the rhe Russian soldiers themselves can. But their superiors certainly can
Fragging is an option.
On the one hand, Carlson being against it makes me assume that it's probably a good thing, but on the other I'm usually pretty against the use of landmines because they have a strong tendency to sit around for a long time and maim random civilians.
But if he said the sky was blue I'd have to go check for myself.
The landmines that Biden approved are battery powered. While they are still indiscriminate killing machines, they will self-neutralize rather than remain dangerous for decades to come.
This. U do still have to worry about what the error rate is considering the vast number that will be deployed.
Yup.
I think Biden is wrong for the reasons you lay out. It won't just be the Russians that suffer from mining.
WWII ordinances still get pulled up pretty regularly in France.
Yeah, sure, because the technology is exactly the same now as it was 80 years ago.
World War II ordinances didn't rely on batteries and so remain(ed) dangerous for far longer.
These are still explosive. While the triggering mechanism may go bad after the battery dies, are the explosive chemicals neutralized? What happens on a shock to the device? For example, if it's crushed by a vehicle or hit by a plow blade?
I can grant that these are probably safer than yesteryear's model, but I also think you are still setting up bobbytraps that are potentially dangerous for decades.
Do some research and get back to us.
Most explosives are chemically and physically stable like c4. Driving over them isn't going to set them off, nor is hitting them with any kind of blunt force.
Hell, you can even burn C4 and it does not explode.
Interesting concept for a BBQ - C4 instead of charcoal.
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I mean they're being invaded, and by Russia out of all countries. Just like their use of cluster ammunition, they probably decided it's worth the risk.
Well, some of them did. Conscription is active in Ukraine which means there’s a lot of people involved against their will.
There is a simple solution - Tucker's pal Putin could GTFO of Ukraine. How about that?
Don't step on Ukrainian land if you don't want to deal with Ukrainian land mines?
Good thing land mines can distinguish between Ukrainians and Russians I guess?
They have an expiration date. Not purly for lobg term safety reasons but it also allows for more advanced tactical use cases.
Do they have fixed expiry after which the thing is inert, or just a battery that runs down after which a different energy source (or shock to the battery) is needed to trigger them?
They have en expiry after which they explode i believe.
And a child years after the war ends.
Landmines were internationally banned for a reason.
Iirc, these have an expiration date
Not that it fully absolves them, but better than the ones that go boom 30 years after the fact
Come on and SLAM
If you wanna JAM
Tucker Carlson throws Biden off of hell in the cell and 16 feet into the announcer table for supplying land mines.
slams
So fucking tired of this headline eye-grabber.
Oh no he didn't!
Um? Yea...