Poland and the Baltic states have taken a first step towards quitting a treaty banning anti-personnel mines, citing an increased security threat from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Baltics will have to do that on their porch probably. Poland has a pretty barren border with Russia and swamps/forests on the border with Belarus. The latter is more of an issue, people living there had their lives disturbed by constant military presence and Lukashenko was pushing migrants to us wholesale through there for years. Now they get mines too. This sucks all around so fuck Putin.
Understandably, yes.
Will they also have lines of tank traps, nicely covered by hedges, and “villas” where the windows are always shuttered, like the Swiss have them?
Baltics will have to do that on their porch probably. Poland has a pretty barren border with Russia and swamps/forests on the border with Belarus. The latter is more of an issue, people living there had their lives disturbed by constant military presence and Lukashenko was pushing migrants to us wholesale through there for years. Now they get mines too. This sucks all around so fuck Putin.