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Lithuania has every reason to fear Moscow.
Sadly, mines and cluster munitions are an essential part of defensive warfare, nations having to protect themselves from invading hordes need them.
I am fine with this.
Good for them.
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I gotta go do stuff.
Russians will just go through Belarus.
Little Lithuania has no choice, with a population of just under 3 million and a nearly 300 mile border with Russia. They have to make up for their defensive deficits somehow.
I think it was YouTube poster William Spaniel who presented an analysis of countries that had banned cluster bombs. He pointed out that they either didn’t have any already or were not in a likely location, like New Zealand, where they would ever be used. So, more useless virtue signaling.
I love his Indepth analysis. Here’s a link.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=william+spaniel
Don’t blame them in the least. Such a treaty wouldn’t stop Russia from using cluster munitions against Lithuania, and mines benefit the defender more than the attacker.
Good for them. Go with mines, too. If dumdums are not OK, go back to using them. Use whatever you have to in order to protect your forces.
Does that justify gases? Oh, don’t be an idiot. Gases disperse with the wind and kill everything. Bombs/mines kill only in a specific area and that area does not move around.
Oh, oh, oh; and I can hear the whingers going on about some kiddie finding one. Yeah. Just like some kiddie finding Daddy’s gun in the house or wandering into traffic. Raise your kid responsibly.
So, it was all posturing and virtue signaling, I guess...
Ukraine is a signatory of the landmine treaty. It does not seem to have prevented their use of them in the current conflict.