Thanks Trump and Putin. Just what future generations of children need, more fucking landmines. /s

Yes. Every country on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea has recently left the land mine ban.

Unlike Ukraine, we don’t have hundreds of kilometers of space for a strategic retreat. So if signs start indicating that an invasion might come, border areas will have mine fields.

If it comforts anyone: many modern land mines have electronic detonators. They can be designed to become inert after a set amount of time, or when their battery runs out of juice. Old models had mechanical / piezo detonators, and could survive decades in the right conditions.

I can’t help myself, I’m glad that EU countries recognize the threat and arm themselves.

Have you noticed that most “Say No To War” people - then and now - claim to be “unpolitical”? In other words, follow a gut feeling instead of forming an informed opinion? That was me in the distant past. And I see people around me talk like that.
Yes, it feels nicer. But they open themselves wide to hybrid warfare disinformation tactics, unless they make the effort of informing themselves. Until then, please have the courage to say “I don’t have enough information to have an opinion about this topic”.

As for specifically Finland and specifically this treaty:

The move aligns Finland with Poland and the Baltic states, which also plan to leave the treaty.

This makes sense.

The EU should’ve listened to the Baltic states’ Russia policies decades ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Landmine had a beautiful song that was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and involved a bunch of famous musical artists. https://youtu.be/_CQXI01usj0

So, when we don’t need anti-personnel landmines, then they are bad, and other nations should not use them. When we do need them, their use becomes acceptable.

Is that about right?