Finland plans to withdraw from Ottawa landmines treaty

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1. Understandable, just leave an open corridor so you don’t lose access to IKEA in Haparanda 😉. 

2. Finland also plans to increase defence budget to 3% of GDP from ~2%.

   Both great news IMO

3. They need ro buffer that Eastern border

4. So messed up. Landmines hurt as history shows mainly kids and the poor

5. Time to find the next generation of Simo Hayhas.

6. I don’t blame them.

7. As every sane country bordering Russia should.

8. Finland doesn’t fuck around. They are absolutely a security provider in Nato, rather than a receiver. And there is only like 5 million of them. I never thought I would be a fan of land mines, yet here we are 🤷🏼‍♂️.

9. April fools?

10. Several other European countries already withdrew in the last two months. They’re preparing for war and need to start laying mine fields on their borders with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in case Ukraine falls.

11. Can we just make new landlines that we can locate after the fact for removal? Some sort of short range radio chip should be easy.

12. good. Now withdraw from any nuclear non-proliferation treaties.

13. I live in Ottawa and I can assure you there are no landmines here.

14. Mine the shit out of that border böys. Big Suomi energy 💪💪💪

15. I mean fair..

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17. Those one-legged Russian soldiers that are hopping around in Ukraine will soon have no legs & a few thousand Finnish snipers to contend with. Can’t wait to see it!

18. Hallelujah. Us ratifying the treaty was remarkably idiotic.

19. This treaty always depended on the naive idea that Russia would follow and agree to do the same (and they would actually honor their agreement). That didn’t happen so this treaty is not worth upholding any longer.

20. I think Canada is going to withdraw from a lot of treaties, too.

21. Why play by the rules when your opponents never will?

    Good call by Finland.

22. All these treaties, disarming agreements and other bullshit will never work while we have scumbags like ruzzians on this planet. Fucking disgrace to humanity.

    Ah, and no one will ever give their nukes away for anything. Thanks again to ruzzia

    This world is gonna explode at some point just because some old insane war criminal wanted a few additional kilometers of land for themselves. Because apparently being the biggest shitter on this planet is not enough, they need more.

23. Landmines are terrible for the environment and for the times of peace.

    They are great for having a “no mans land” on the border between a hostile neighbour and yourself.

    Not only Finland, but

    >Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia also plan to leave Ottawa convention over Russia threat

    This is also relavent [Denmark purchases 130 Finnish armored personnel carriers, “hundreds” of French mistral-missiles ](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/danmark-koeber-pansrede-mandskabsvogne-milliarder)

24. I think Ottawa should withdraw and make that line not artificial anymore.

25. Smart

26. So we’re going from road signs to mulch.

27. Everybody signs a treaty until it’s time to withdraw from the treaty

28. People are cheering this like it’s a good thing. Land mines kill more civilians than soldiers. And it also shows that Europe is getting closer to war again not something to cheer about.

29. Well well well, nice gaslighting from western democracies eh.

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