Reintroduction cluster bombs and land mines in Eastern Europe

[Tiredofwhataboutery]

I was listening to the economist podcast this morning and countries that border Russia / Belarus are pulling out of international agreements prohibiting the use of such weapons. I do understand why they want to protect their borders from possible / likely incursion.

It feels like the end of an era, these agreements were entered into after the end of the Cold War and to me they symbolised the path the west expected the world to take. A rather optimistic march to democracy and liberalism.

Now it seems like the expectation is that the world is going to get much, much worse for many people. NATO allies who we have agreed to stand beside. Even if they do deter invasion will there be other countries thst start using them too. In Gaza or Sudan for example.

Not really sure what I hope to get from this post I just wondered if anyone else is also feeling this hopeless concern for the future.

This is one reason we should be united against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Those countries (rightly) feel we would abandon them and somehow lay the blame on them for being attacked.

The correct response was for the whole world to stand up on the first day of the Ukraine invasion so that Russia (and others) would know that invasion was no longer practical.

Those weapons are terrible in that they hang around and can kill a generation later, but as it stands I would recommend every country stock up on them for border defence - including the UK.

Wish I could be more optimistic.