@newsguyusa

Hasn't the entire world banned the use of landmines?

Am I making that up?

@401matthall @newsguyusa

not the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Ottawa_Treaty

@benh

And almost _every_ country that's withdrawn or declined to participate has hostile neighbors or is the US, China, and Russia.

That's... That's a nice club to be in.

🙄

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@benh

I guess what I _should've_ said at the outset was, "There's no fucking justification for the US to drop landmines from the fucking air on a foreign country when _restricting_ movement of military forces isn't a primary goal of the conflict."

It's a _huge_ fucking risk to civilians for decades to come with little to no value in the immediate operation (even _if_ that operation/war/etc were fucking legal or justifiable.)

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