Posted on 11/22/2024 4:57:42 PM PST by Angelino97
The Green Party announced on Friday that it is joining international groups in condemning the Biden administration’s decision to supply anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine in response to changing military tactics. This announcement comes after the Biden administration stated this week that it would provide Ukraine with mines.
“Let’s be clear here,” said Cassandra Lems, co-chair of the Green Party, in a statement. “The United States should not be supplying landmines to anyone. All landmines do is kill innocent civilians, sometimes for decades to come.”
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would provide anti-personnel mines to Ukraine, citing the need to slow Russia’s advances on the battlefield. This decision follows another recent shift in U.S. policy, permitting Ukraine to deploy longer-range American missiles against Russian targets as its battle strategies evolve.
In response, the Green Party criticized the move as part of the ongoing “alignment of Democrats with Republicans on weapons proliferation.” The party warned that this decision would have long-term consequences for Ukrainians, including “indiscriminate death and maiming and the loss of land for the production of food and other industries.” It also expressed concern that providing long-range missiles risks escalating the conflict globally.
“Biden’s approval for the mines along with allowing Ukraine to use long-range US missiles on targets in Russia represents a dangerous escalation of hostilities, as Russia has lowered its threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in retaliation,” said Madelyn Hoffman, co-chair of the Green Party’s Peace Action Committee. “The Green Party calls for an immediate ceasefire, negotiations for peace, and an end to weapons shipments to Ukraine.”
The Green Party also reiterated its support for the 1997 Ottawa Convention, a United Nations-led treaty prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel mines, further noting that the United States has never signed the treaty. According to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, the Ottawa Convention has led to “a virtual halt in global production of anti-personnel mines, and a drastic reduction in their deployment.”
Green Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kremlin.
These mines are made to self-disable after a timed period. Therefor, they present very little long term risk.
Demoncraps blame the “Greens” for siphoning off anti-Trump votes.
No favors owed to the watermelon party.
I did not know that even existed but now that you mentioned it, it seems like an obvious and humane design improvement. But I would think with all the sophisticated systems we have these days, mines would be pretty primitive in general. Ukraine may be somewhat primitive, but we’ve given them so much cash that they should be able to defend all of Europe.
Start laying minefields and the local yokels start popping like popcorn.
The use of landmines in Ukraine is a desperation move that won’t change the outcome. But it does allows our enemies justification to use them also. Same thing can be said about the cluster munitions being used there.
The numbers show that even if you added the Green, Libertarian and RFK votes to Kamala, she still has a couple hundred thousand less votes than Trump. You’d have to add in the final third party numbers from the “Other” column to get her votes above Trump.
In just Michigan, Stein also wouldn’t be enough to get Kamala over Trump. Nor adding in RFK. But if you add in the Libertarian votes, then she gets over Trump in Michigan.
In Pennsylvania, Trump’s over 50%, so there’s no way to add anything to Kamala to get her over Trump there.
They are brainless twits, but why do you always castigate Russia when the demented one (Biden) is the one who is escalating the conflict? Putin is not our friend, but neither is Zelensky.
This landmines would be better used on the mexican border
No, I was stating a fact. Putin has funded the Green Party USA, and Jill Stein in particular for years. She’s almost as close to Putin as Mike Flynn from the first Trump admin.
So Putin is no worse than our current president? I was not implying that Putin was a paragon of virtue, obviously not. However, we need to put our house in order.
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