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.
Landmines? Smart, those never hurt anybody accidentally /s
Its always projection with these people.
When someone shambles to a hospital missing a limb, they can blame it on Russia who laid those landmines, I guess.
Finland in 10 years: Let’s attack russia. Sieg hBOOM
First as tragedy, then as farce.
Civilians end up paying the price for land mines
“client state of Belarus” … In the last 4 yrs, I actually see a bit more of independence of Belarus from Moscow than Germany, Lithuania or Finland does from Washington DC… Belorussian at least takes weeks or months to comply with Moscow’s demands… it is always overnight for Europeans!
Militarily speaking, I don’t see this being much of a deterrent either. In such a vast terrain, it would not be hard for Russia to get hold of one and reverse engineer it to disable it (presumably they will be remote controlled and disabled). But even with that, just a large unmanned machine can go in front triggering the mines and breach the line overnight. Again, due to the vast amount of land border and civilian population, it will be a very thin line. Of course, that takes the assumption that Russia had any interest of invading any land beyond Ukraine, that I would rate it as zero (unless invaded first or an total embargo on Kaliningrad!). After NATO’s progress fiasco showed in Ukraine, I think from now, the industry and certain politicians just view NATO as a cash cow for the remaining of its existence and less and less expenses share of the pie will be for innovation and readiness.
And Belarus took decades to finally stop sitting on the fence and come for help to Russia in the first place. And this of course happened after months of coup attempts in 2020. Poland and Lithuania still do everything they can to harm Belarus short of military attack.
This is shocking. We are still removing mines left from ages past …
NATO sure like building useless walls eh
Even if it was true that Russia was going to invade them, which is not, what are landmines going to do to a modern army lmao.
Its a boom belt
A pragmatic low cost solution in light of the usa threat of forcing the european members of nato to “pay their fair share”. But what prevents russia from detonating them with drones? This isn’t ds9. They (presumably) aren’t self replicating.
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The “Russian Human Wave” narrative is based on Nazi propaganda from World War II, trying to draw a racist connection between the asiatic Russians and the Mongols, the idea of the “Mongol Horde.” Neither the Red Army during World War II nor the modern Russian Federation use human wave tactics, the closest was the Tsarist army pre-Socialism. This is ridiculous.
As for the DPRK, seems their involvement was limited to Kursk, and munitions supplies.
“Mongol Horde.”
Funniest part is even the original narration was complete bullshit. Mongols regularily won battles against more numerous armies due to superior logistics, strategy, tactics and equipment.
Exactly! It was just racism the whole way down.
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It was relevent then, and is relevant now because opposition to Russia is filled with Russophobia. The Russian Federation doesn’t use “Human Wave” tactics, and haven’t used them. There’s no evidence of it, only allegations, and those allegations draw from their historical accusations against the Red Army, equally false.
Denouncing anti-slavic racism isn’t “Russian apologia.” I oppose NATO expansionism and I agree with the rights of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics to secede from Ukraine, which they have done due to the coup in 2014. I also support a swift conclusion to the war. If you oppose those, I doubt we will see eye to eye.
It is telling that you refuse to “counter my nonsense,” that speaks more to a lack of ability to do so.
