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Does the human cost on soldiers and civilians alike make any sense when infantry based warfare will likely never be as prevalent as decades past considering the affordability of drones?

Am I missing something?

I will end this by saying if this somehow comes across any military experts, I want to hear your thoughts. Is their any real utility to landmines in a world of advanced area control and denial methods?

Is this theatre for all the bloodthirsty hypernationalists and warmongers popping up all over Europe, those who dream of nothing but inflicting sadistic violence on anyone they deem opposed to their "noble" dreams?

I know instinctively that landmines are useless for modern warfare, and data appears to corroborate my uneducated instinct.

Yet, some states are tripping over themselves to return their use to normal warfare, threatening lives and environments for... sadism? Looking scary in front of opponents?

It didn't have to be that way, of course. The concepts of rights and civility are not "fake" just because the world order has abandoned them wholesale.

However, the bottom-line for most of states in the world is absolute self-interest. The politics we live today incentivise cynicism and hatred.

Israel, Russia, China, Iran, the US, NATO.

All of them are complicit in the death of civil norms and the deterioration of basic leadership.

It's a race to the bottom, leadership only in devolution and regression.

It shows that none of the supposed triumphs of post-WWII were sustainable.

Absolutely embarrassing how NATO and the pillars of the global community put the blame on Russia or China for threatening the post-WWII order - all while going out of their way to destroy the bases (on paper) of how we conduct warfare since that massive crime that was the Second World War.

Do anti-personnel mines still have military utility in modern warfare? - Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog Five States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention have recently submitted instruments of withdrawal, citing national security and military necessity, while at least one other has taken ste...

Finland is abandoning a treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines.

Estonia abandoned it recently too, and a few other nations, citing developing security concerns. I felt like that was a load of bullshit, so I decided to do a little reading:

blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...

Ya Allah!!

LOL doing propaganda for autocratic states. This is one of the most mindless posts I've read in a while

Gazans are taking matters into their own hands by launching community reconstruction efforts With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an…

READ: With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an organizer with the Sameer Project tells Mondoweiss. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...

Robot go brrrrrr

I shall never stop trying. Thank you.

Reading this has me tearing up. I don't celebrate Christmas, but I live every day in places that do not know me when I know them so well. I live with people that do not know me when I know them so well. It's bloody hard. It's hard, ya Allah, it's hard

Palestinians have been exceptions to the "liberal world order" since its inception. In terms of systems, there is nowhere safe.

Which is why it matters so much to have safe, warm community spaces and family spaces. Which is why states will continue to intrude in those and decimate them.

Fork found in kitchen

Why are you polyamorous?

Wrong answers only:

To be able to book half a row on flights or a whole row on trains

God help them and us. The fight never stops.

I have been dissociating to dangerous levels for the past two years following October 7. It has made it hard to express, write, communicate. Even doing basic tasks is a drain. I can only begin to imagine the scale of mental damage inside Gaza and Palestine. I have only watched what they live.

The sheer intellectual malice in pretending Palestinians are monolithic (in whatever way fits the agenda of the speaker) is infuriating, indeed.

There is huge diversity in Palestinian thought and politics that "supporters" love to bulldoze so they can flatten us into caricatures.

No wonder they're the ones selling spyware and Big Data analysis solutions for city surveillance

Love as Politics Politics should not be cold and cruel.

New Substack blog...

Some thoughts on love and politics:

open.substack.com/pub/thetalke...

I deactivated Twitter, finally

I am disturbed by this as if I know someone who fits the bill, yet I don't. Bloody hell

"So, which emotion do I allow space for today?"

I have turned so many things like food or YouTube into crutches ever since October 7... Constsntly cycling between running from the pain and facing it. The kind of choices one has to make when dealing with transphobia, dysphoria, and sheer trauma at the same time are not fun.

It's truly a fascinating experience. I feel so touched by reading this, because it's very much my experience. I don't know you, but, in the name of our shared humanity... Feel free to reach out if you need a friend.

Viele wollen, dass alles schnell in Ordnung wird, ist aber für mich unvorstellbar

Wie kann man nach 1,5 Jahren Genozid einfach aufstehen und weiter leben, ohne unzählige Trauma-Schaden zu bekämpfen?

Also the blatant denial of Palestinians existing who also happen to be LGBT+

But we all know that's on purpose...