The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines unnecessarily puts civilians at risk.
The cynical part of me is asking, whether landmines aren’t an effective measure to ensure environmental protection. The more areas are being mined now, the less they are available for human exploitation after the war.
There are currently large forest fires in east germany (as each year). The fire cannot be effectively combatted because the ground is (supposedly) full of unexploded ordenanced from back in the cold war when the area was used as a trainig ground. (agian, nothing new. Nothing unique)
The cynical part of me is asking, whether landmines aren’t an effective measure to ensure environmental protection. The more areas are being mined now, the less they are available for human exploitation after the war.
There are currently large forest fires in east germany (as each year). The fire cannot be effectively combatted because the ground is (supposedly) full of unexploded ordenanced from back in the cold war when the area was used as a trainig ground. (agian, nothing new. Nothing unique)
The mines kill large animals too.
Humans regularly kill large animals as well.
Though I’m unsure how much the presence of mines and absence of humans would affect animal deaths.
Deer avoid the old inner german border. It had minefields.
Do they? The old ones are usually magnetically triggered and I assume current ones have a CPU onboard interpreting multiple sensors.