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I'll never understand how people can look at what happens to a place when you seed it with thousands/millions of landmines and still think "hey that's a good idea, let's do that!"

Just plant a bunch of hidden murder traps and dust off your hands, no need to think of the next generation(s)! And don't even worry about having a plan to ensure the eventual safe disarming and disposal of these fields of bombs, that's someone else's problem!

"Well, yeah using anti-personnel mines could be considered immoral and unethical, but only if you don't consider the Russians as nonhumans!"

Also, all joking aside, I love living in a country with Alexander "I'd allow NATO nukes on Finnish soil" Stubb for president, that goddam warmongering idiot. I like to use a phrase to refer to him that I think is in one of our nation's most beloved wartime novels: Saatanan sotahullu

This is going to murder a lot of refugees and migrants who'll have no idea this stupidity is at play, and I believe that's definitely part of this as well

If Russia ever did that they would be calling it a Berlin Wall 2.0.

How long before some stupid ass Fin will accidentally get killed because of this

But I thought that capitalism was about freedom? I thought that we didn't have to construct barriers to keep people from leaving?!-/s

This is 100% for their planned war of aggression.

It's not just kayfabe, it's not just money for land mine manufacturers. It's to provide a defense against a Russian counter-thrust after they drive NATO forces deep into Russia via a hole in this. That way they figure they can shape things via controlling where troops end up. Russia should 100% lay their own mine-fields in response because it's impossible to know exactly where NATO forces are going to dismantle their own minefields in future to thrust through some armored columns. They should wait until after NATO does it of course so they look worse but make the mines now, get out the plans for razor wire deployments and signage to attempt to block off the mine-fields from wandering people.

Westoids are completely deranged about losing hegemony to China and multipolarity and are preparing a suicide-rush on Russia. That or they want to dissuade Russia from helping China when they commit 80% of their forces along with the US to attacking and containing China (and possibly attacking Russian shipping in the process thus giving them valid reason to respond).

As if the Poland-Belarus border is not fucked up enough already

Sounded like bullshit to me, but nope.

• Reuters last week: Finnish parliament votes to exit landmines treaty due to Russia threat
• The Telegraph today: Europe is building a new ‘Iron Curtain’– with millions of landmines

  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.

Really looking forward to the new PSAs about land mines that are going to come out in the next decade. Super cool, Europe.

That’s dumb as shit. Like, you’d think that famed petulant arrogance would dissuade Euros from doing something this embarrassingly fucking stupid

This is fake news btw y'all are terrible at identifying propaganda

No credible source for this at all

Horseshoe theory etc etc

Read some more NPR or something guys please