Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree formally withdrawing Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention on anti-personnel landmines. The move coincided with the exit from the treaty by countries along NATO's eastern flank, including Poland and the Baltics. Sputnik asked leading Russian and US military experts about the move's likely consequences.
    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      This is genuine racism, holy shit. “Simple minded orcs?” Blaming the conflict on the inherent intellectual inferiority of the asiatic slavs, who you call “orcs” due to their asiatic features? This is straight up WWII Nazi propaganda levels of racism.

    • Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      You are writing fanfiction based off of propaganda NATO is recycling from the Cold War. Literal Asiatic hordes.