Posted on 04/18/2025 8:49:08 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines amid concerns over the military threat posed by neighbouring Russia.
"The withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention will give our armed forces room for manoeuvre in the event of a military threat to use all possible means to defend our citizens," parliament foreign affairs committee chair Inara Murniece said in the statement.
Latvia is the first country to formally withdraw from the treaty but Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland, all of whom also border Russia, have said they plan to exit it due to the military threat from their much larger neighbour.
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The Maginot line will protect France by making invasion by the Germans so costly as to be impossible./s
This is from Anders Nielson a Danish analyst. The entire thing is good, though focused on drones and the sea change in how warfare has changed. The relevant point he makes is, once territory is taken, the advantage goes to the defense and territory taken, like Latvia, etc. Will likely not be easy to get back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZL1KzV54Cw
I once saw a flick “This Land of Mine” about the million mines put on the Danish beaches to prevent invasion.. The war was over and the country would not repatriate their German prisoners. Made them remove them. Half of these untrained prisoners got blown up.
At least a hundred million mines (or a billion?) will be needed separate Europe from further Russian invasions. Let’s mass produce mines now!
An estimated two million mines are believed to be strewn in and around the Koreas’ 248 kilometre-long and four km-wide land border.
You and your Momz better get busy then Fuzzy Foriener.
Talk is cheap.🤡🐸
They’ll be in need of those land mines if Russia comes a’ callin’!
One thing that bothered me about the TV show “Hogan’s Heros” was the benign, comical portrayal of the absolute evil that is war and especially the type waged by dictators.
Thinking about it from the perspective of those living with landmines and being the winners...had the politicians done it any other way they’d have faced being fired by the people. I understand why they did it and even though the “innocent” Germans died, I find it hard to shed a tear for them.
In the post WW2 era, virtually anyone maimed or killed by a land mine was done so by one manufactured in the Soviet Union or one of its communist satellites. All those limbless blacks in Rhodesia... commie land mines.
“Proving warmongering countries like Latvia....”
Yes, those kriminal Latvians. If only there was a leader with the force to stop their kriminality, and support them under wise and benevolent leadership to light the way for peace and stability for all mankind....
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