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Europe is building a new ‘Iron Curtain’– with millions of landmines (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have announced they will leave the Ottawa Convention of 1997, which prohibits anti-personnel landmines. Later in June, all five states are expected to give the United Nations formal notice of their withdrawal, allowing them to manufacture, stockpile and deploy such munitions from the end of the year. Together, they guard 2,150 miles of Nato’s frontier with Russia and its client state of Belarus.

Military planners are already working out which expanses of European forest and lake land would be planted with these deadly devices, laden with high explosives and shrapnel, if Vladimir Putin were to mass his forces against the alliance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Do we know if the idea is to really have only mines?

The article gives as example some razor wire reinforced fence area through the forest that's likely gonna be targeted (the picture does not show what's on the floor, but you can see the area has surveillance cameras too). I wouldn't be surprised if the idea is to have some multi-layered protection, Surovikin-like, but of course the mines is what will break the news, since they could affect civilians the most.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I would say even the mines would be too expensive (especially at the time entire NATO have problem with ammo production), everything is probably just one of the warmongering masturbation ideas that Baltics produce in higher amount than any weapon. Even if realised it would be at most something like Poland did at Belarussian border, so it would be basically a fence to stop and kill unarmed migrants and it would also tie entire armies of those countries to watch it.