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So like all UXO that's indiscriminately used?
Yes. "Indiscriminately" being the operative word.
Russians butchering civilians doesn't make it ok for Ukraine to emulate them.
See? I agree. Landmines should not be used indiscriminately. Luckily, Ukraine has already pledged to not use them in civilian areas, and landmine protocols are a far fucking cry from the Vietnam era, so we're good.
Glad to see we're all on the same page of not demanding that victims meekly submit to genocide in the name of some nebulous and ill-defined moral high ground.
How many thousands of Ukranian lives are worth not using landmines to you? Tens of thousands?
That's like saying that guns shouldn't be used violently 🙄
The nature of landmines is that of an indiscriminate and long lasting danger. Do you really think that, once the war is one and it's time for civilians to move back to the areas that war has displaced them from, Ukraine is going to dig them all up again?
Because if you do, I have an explosion-proof bridge to Crimea to sell you.
Holy false dichotomy, Batman! Not meekly submitting ≠ doing the same things that you rightly deplore your enemy for doing.
This is some "Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki were all great" type nonsense.
Oh they promised, did they? What a relief!
It's not like politicians and diplomats who know that they'll retain the support of the richest countries in the world no matter what would ever break a promise that they made in order to get something that they want!
Just like how Israel has always told the truth to American politicians!
Yes, that's literally what fucking happens. Planned UXO operations are already going to take decades because of all the mines that Russia has laid, including in civilian areas, but I'm sure that you're just really concerned about Ukraine's post-war UXO situation becoming worse by (checks notes) Ukraine laying mines it itself has recorded in non-civilian areas.
Ah, the "Blockading Japan and having millions starve is the moral high ground" option.
Dresden was bad because it did not have commensurate military value to the civilian destruction it caused, and bomber command was well aware of that.
Oh, so we're going on the assumption that Ukraine doesn't care about their own post-war situation despite all of their actions thus far pointing towards the exact opposite?
Cool cool cool. Very paternalistic mindset, glad we're still doing the "Noble Western Savior" thing in telling countries being genocided how exactly they're allowed to defend themselves and accusing them of being savages if they disagree.
Ok, I see now that you have no interest in arguing in good faith, so I'm gonna leave you to it rather than wasting any more time on your absolutist credulity. Have the day you deserve.
Sorry that you don't like being confronted with the fact that you don't give a single fuck about Ukrainian lives and are just virtue signaling. But hey - have fun advocating for Ukranians to meekly submit to be massacred in order to take the moral high ground of (checks notes) not using explosives to stop the Russian advance. Really terrible stuff would have happened in this war if we allowed that, just absolutely exceptional suffering.
Also, nice one on running from the fact that you accused the Ukrainian government of being ready to just mine their own land and leave it that way post-war. Keep up the good work, I'm sure Putin and all the other fascist fucks are very proud of you.