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.

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    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.