Ukraine is now the most mined country. It will take decades to make safe
https://archive.is/2023.07.22-100405/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/22/ukraine-is-now-most-mined-country-it-will-take-decades-make-safe/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works291
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What a legacy to leave, Mr Putin. What a legacy.
Shame how many needless deaths this will lead to years after the conflict is over
Really hope Putin lives long enough to get the Milosevic treatment
I don't think Putler will survive the war. I suspect he's gonna pull one final Adolf move
During Prigos march there were reports the Kremlin were actively calling the few countries they still had some relationship with. So it looked like he was considering escape for a moment.
Dude's got cancer, apparently. He'll decide to go out on his own terms; I hope he doesn't take too many actual humans with him.
To late.
Source?
News. Probably BBC as I consume a lot of that. Maybe al-jezeera.
I certainly don't maintain a citation list for everything I read just so I can regurgitate pieces for free for some lazy git who's never heard of Google. :-P
I really hope that international support for Ukraine is extended for help with mine clearance after the war.
Bring on the robot mine sweepers.
...and tear
Until it is done
Yeah... Where is Doomguy if you need someone to bring a chainsaw to a Judo-fight?
Minecraft
Who could have guess that weapons only brings in more destruction and problems
Yeah fuck Putin and everyone who supports him.
This comment doesn't make sense. Who is supporting Putin here?
Sol's comment up above is a dogwhistle against support for Ukraine's defense.
Ok, I don't see it. That's some conspiracy theory thinking from you.
I have unfortunately spent a lot of time among certain kinds of nutjobs who don't want to support Ukraine, and they generally tend to avoid highlighting Putin's responsibility and sticking to the talking point of "sending weapons is bad". If you haven't seen those trends, great for you, unironically, because their hypocrisy is pretty annoying.
Do you not believe dog whistles are a thing?
No, it's not.
Russians? China? Plenty of shills all over the world etc.
There's a long list of armdealers in the world, putin is just one of them
Oh sorry then I apologize. That makes invading a sovereign country not that bad.
It would be nice if we would be this loud every time someone attacks sovereign country and not only when we don't like an attacker.
You can say whatever you want but some people see it as west set up Ukraine to fight their war, commenting without acknowledging that is just ignorant. You know very well that no body supports Putin, just discussing different ideas. Plain old gasliting.
That's about the size of it. You can't even point out NATO war crimes or say that maybe peace would be good for Ukraine without being told (never asked) that you support Putin.
Is there anything else you'd like to attribute to me that I haven't actually said?
Also, I'm not sure that you know what cognitive dissonance means. It does not apply to the scenario that you have concocted.
You can, just not in a thread specifically about Ukraine. It's off topic at best and really looks like whataboutism. But I suspect you know that already.
Don't say dumb shit.
I know you are but what am I
dumb shit.
There you go, I said it. now what nerd
*raises fists
Marquess of Queensbury rules, of course.
Says who?
This isn't Dungeons & Dragons, it's poor bastards on both sides. Their intention is to dehumanise; they might as well be calling them rats. Most of the mines are likely defensive and were laid by Ukraine anyway.
BoTh SiDeZZZ
Well, yeah. That doesn't mean I support the invasion. But the human cost isn't negated by the politics of the leadership, is it. They aren't orcs, they're humans - poor, young, and conscripted. Why people take pleasure from a teenager bleeding out while he calls for his mother just because he's on the wrong side, I will never understand. Unless he's literally just been firing at you, there's really no excuse for that kind of inhumanity.
Yeh poor guys, forced to rape and pillage, right?