Ok, so I'm not the only one thinking about that last part. 🤣😂 The Russians are mining like idiots, not even they know where and a lot of Russians die because of their own mines when they go to attack. The Ukrainians are more into the Western way, marking the positions on maps.

PS: In June or so, Russians hit a World Central Kitchen truck in Ukraine and nobody said a word. When Israel did it, it was the end of civilisation. Now it will be the same.

interesting, thanks. missed this news somehow. not sure if russia will ever do that. we are very far from that. world can't even name properly what russia is.

Doesn't have to be voluntary. Just use captured Russians for it. Same as we did to Germans (both German soldiers and civilians were used for forced labor). In particular, Ukraine has captured lots of non-Russians who fought for Russia. Typically no-one wants them back so they're worthless for trading for Ukrainians. Like everyone fighting for or otherwise supporting Russia they're criminals and executing them would be acceptable. Giving them the opportunity to work for their life is fine too.

In fairness, Ukraine is air dropping a lot of mines too. There's lots of land where the only sure thing to do is to methodically clear it. That requires enormous amounts of labor. It's not actually very difficult – there's ways to do it very safely. But it takes a hell of a lot of time. For farm fields, it's relatively easy to get to a level of clearance with machinery where it's safe enough to drive farm equipment over it (especially remotely). But you'd never want to use that land for, e.g., a playground, without hand demining. At the other end of the spectrum is stuff like the beaches of Odesa. They were heavily mined – I have photos I took myself of the warning signs in 2022. And since then they've been carefully cleared to the level where they're fully open to tourists again (though every section of open beach has an anti-sea-mine barrier).

Remind me, in the more recent case didn't it turn out to be terrorists pretending to the World Central Kitchen? IIRC Israel called up WCK to verify they were imposters first (which got WCK a lot of deaths threats for as Hamas supporters saw that as collaboration!). IIRC there was also an earlier accidental strike on WCK where Israel admitted fault quickly.

Also, if the west actually fights a real war again I'm sure they're going to end up doing like Ukraine is doing... Mines are extremely effective. There's a trade-off between getting them most benefit out of them and post-war safety work.

I didn't know that it happened twice in Israel. I remember just the case where Israel admitted fault. I also don't look too much into Israel/Gaza so there's that. That being said, there's no wonder the case with the terrorists, it's their MO. They starve their own population while they have billionaires in their ranks.

That's why the Eastern flank decided to get back to anti-personnel mines. 🤷

I came back to see what your "favourite" followers had to say. Nothing. A few days back, when the Ukrainian soldier shot 2 Russians, they decided it was CRIMINAL. Even tho the Russians were wearing Ukrainian/US camouflage, which was actually a war crime.