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Cluster submunitions from one of the Russian Kh-101 missiles that attacked Kyiv today. (sopuli.xyz)

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

Just to generally comment on this, cluster munitions are banned by quite a lot of countries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Neither Ukraine or Russia are on that list, and a couple of countries that do have a possible defensive war against Russia in mind withdrew from that treaty. That and Ottawa treaty (banning AP victim-triggered landmines)

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

I'm aware, thanks.

I'm Finnish.

I would like for us to be in the treaties, but it would be foolish as we border Russia, and they just won't respect any treaties.

I linked it so that people can read about why there is a treaty to begin with. Same with anti-personnel landmines. Hell, I should probably go and take a refresher course, because when I was doing my service, we weren't taught shit about AP mines, because geopolitical situation was a bit more chill and we respected the treaty.

I do recall some of the older lieutenants saying something like "we won't be teaching you about AP mines, although in practice, if Russia ever does start being threatening, we'll probably back out of the treaty anyway". Which we did.

But yeah, comment's just here to generate conversation about why Putler is such a bastard.