Biden's final days. Long range missiles and land mines.
Joe Biden and his surrogates have talked a lot these past weeks about Biden’s commitment to a “peaceful transition”.
But his actions this past week in giving the green light to launching U.S. missiles into Russia and sending Ukraine more land mines serves only to escalate a war that has already killed upwards of a million people.
As reTrump prepares to retake office and announces his cabal of reality tv stars and child sex traffickers as heads of agencies and cabinet appointments, it now seems likely that Biden will be remembered for the brutality of the wars he oversaw and for which he was the primary supplier of weapons.
The International Committee of the Red Cross:
In 1997 the international community adopted the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, which prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of these weapons and requires action be taken to prevent and address their long-term effects.
Over 160 countries have signed the international agreement banning the use of land mines. Russia and the United States are not among them.
The Biden administration said in June 2022, shortly after the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, that it was "committing to limit the use of antipersonnel land mines."
At the time Biden said about the use of land mines that they have "have disproportionate impact on civilians, including children, long after fighting has stopped.”
Biden promised not to export or transfer antipersonnel land mines, "except when necessary for activities related to mine detection or removal, and for the purpose of destruction."
It also committed to destroying all its antipersonnel land-mine stockpiles.
Perhaps he forgot he said that.