“but still an escalation”
There is a risk that President Putin might retaliate soiling his pants again.
Ya know, these soiled pants comments are getting so tiresome, whether referring to Biden or Putin. Sometimes when I click on a thread and see a pile of comments about Biden’s poopy pants I wonder whether FR is now populated by potty mouthed third grade boys and move on. Same for threads full of poopy-pants Putin. Nothing to learn on such threads.
Again, I applaud anyone who removes these devilish things.
Both sides are laying them, of course. It’s a war.
“(Kyiv, January 31, 2023) – Ukraine should investigate its military’s apparent use of thousands of rocket-fired antipersonnel landmines in and around the eastern city of Izium when Russian forces occupied the area, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch documented numerous cases in which rockets carrying PFM antipersonnel mines, also called “butterfly mines” or “petal mines,” were fired into Russian-occupied areas near Russian military facilities. Ukraine is a state party to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which prohibits any use of antipersonnel mines.”
Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/01/31/ukraine-banned-landmines-harm-civilians
And I thank you for posting this article/blog post. Interesting.