Biden Agrees to Supply Ukraine With Anti-Personnel Mines

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 20, 2024 Updated 11:28 a.m. ET | Andrew E. Kramer and Helene Cooper

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Biden administration has approved supplying Ukraine with American anti-personnel mines to bolster defenses against Russian attacks as Ukrainian front lines in the country’s east have buckled, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday.

The decision is the latest in a series of moves by Russia and the United States related to the war in Ukraine that have escalated tensions between the two.

The White House recently granted permission to Ukraine to fire longer-range American missiles at targets in Russia, which the Ukrainians did for the first time on Tuesday. Moscow in response formalized a new doctrine lowering the threshold for when it would use nuclear weapons.

Mr. Austin said the U.S. decision was prompted by Russia’s increasing reliance on foot soldiers to lead their assaults, instead of armored vehicles. Mr. Austin, speaking to reporters while traveling in Laos, said the shift in policy follows changing tactics by the Russians. Because of that, Ukraine has “a need for things that can help slow down that effort on the part of the Russians,” Mr. Austin said.

“They’ve asked for these, and so I think it’s a good idea,” Mr. Austin said.

The move is also noteworthy because it is part of a series of late actions taken in the waning weeks of the Biden presidency to bolster Ukraine. President Biden in the past has sought to calibrate American help for Ukraine against his own concern about crossing Russian “red lines” that could lead to direct conflict between Washington and Moscow.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The globalist psychopaths would rather the entire world be engulfed in civilization-ending nuclear war than relinquish power to Trump.

[BobL]

Same with our little bunch of Zeepers.

[PGR88]

The vegetable Biden is authorizing nothing.

who exactly is doing this on his behalf?

[NonValueAdded]

We’ll be lucky if we survive until Inauguration Day. This is going downhill very fast.

[rktman]

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4279694/posts

😊👍

[butlerweave]

The parties that are not part of the Mine Ban Treaty will use the mines

[I want the USA back]

biden is leaving Trump a parting gift: a war.

[gundog]

“They’ve asked for these, and so I think it’s a good idea,” Mr. Austin said.

Small wonder that he’s risen to the top, with such a keen analytical mind.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

biden is leaving Trump a parting gift: a war.

If they get their war they will declare martial law and suspend transfer of power by arresting Trump and Vance for being Russian assets.

[hal ogen]

Just who made this decision? biden and kamala are both on vacay (in the Amazon and in Hawaii). biden has dementia and kalal is a proven sub-IQ nitwit who drinks heavily.

[MeanWestTexan]

I don’t know if this is much of a change.

The Russians have placed APM all over the areas they occupied, as have the Ukrainians, mainly former Soviet stock.

This is just a change of supplier.

[Fresh Wind]

I understand the use of anti-personnel mines is a war crime. Anyone promoting their use by providing such weapons to a combatant is guilty.

Biden, are you awake and listening?

[shotgun]

[shotgun]

I was thinking the same thing

[dfwgator]

Especially with Alec Baldwin coming up behind them with a gun.

[JimRed]

Wait, now...won’t we need those mines at the border?

[shotgun]

I see what you did there...

[MeanWestTexan]

That is incorrect.

The USA is not a signatory to the Ottawa Act, which largely banned APMs.

We have them all over the border with North Korea.

[hinckley buzzard]

We are not part of the treaty.

[ansel12]

Today marks the second anniversary of President Donald Trump’s anti-personnel landmine policy, which reversed decades of practice by allowing the U.S. military to produce and deploy anti-personnel landmines anywhere in the world.
https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2022-01/two-years-later-president-trumps-landmine-policy-remains

Trump Administration Broadens Use of Landmines
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2073325/trump-administration-broadens-use-of-landmines/

Biden To Ban Most Land Mines, Undoing Trump’s Loosened Restrictions
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/06/biden-ban-most-land-mines-undoing-trumps-loosened-restrictions/368403/

President Trump directs US military to loosen restrictions on landmine use
https://www.armytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/01/31/us-to-loosen-restrictions-on-landmine-use/

Trump Reverses Obama-Era Restrictions on Military Use of Land Mines
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/31/trump-reverses-obama-era-restrictions-military-use-land-mines.html