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Please remember Ukraine was a signatory to 1997 Ottawa treaties, banning the use of land mines.
Just because the Americans didn’t sign it, doesn’t mean you have to fall to their level.
Refuse them.
"Ukraine must meekly submit to genocide, while Russia is allowed to use all tools at their disposal in pursuit of genociding Ukrainians."
10/10, average 'pacifist'
This exact scenario is why warcrimes have to have meaningful punishment. As soon as one side ignores them and there aren't consequences, this is where you find youself :/
Edit: I guess there are sanctions, but clearly that's not enough.
The laws on warcrimes have always been a sort of mutual agreement, and they often end up being broken in reciprocity. One side commits perfidy, the other side is less inclined to take prisoners alive in return, as happened in the WWII Pacific theater.
I think its naive to think that there can ever be such a thing as a "good clean war" with the international community acting as objective and powerful referees throwing around red cards.
Russia hasn't given a fuck about UXO in civilian areas for the entirety of the war, so I don't see this as being an escalation. It's their land, they'll have incentive to take caution in their use.