The real disgrace is the russian invasion. Can't blame Baltics states for trying to defend themselves.

And don't forget, russians are completely fine with usage of all kind of mines as well as targeting civil critical infrastructure.

Arms control treaties are effective only if they are banning weapons that aren't useful. The problem is that landmines are incredibly useful weapons. What that means is that every country that has signed up to the Ottawa treaty either expects never to get into a major war again, is planning on relying on its allies who haven't signed the treaty to deploy landmines for them, or is planning on ignoring the treaty and using landmines anyways if it gets into another major war again.

In that vein, the Baltics withdrawing from the Ottawa treaty is commendable because they've stopped lying to everybody about what they're going to do come wartime.

> The Baltics withdrawing from the Ottawa treaty was an absolute disgrace. Indefensible.

It is entirely defensible on account of wanting to reduce risk of being invaded by Russia.

PS: Poland also exited the treaty. I entirely support use of mines on territory of mu country for purposes such as reducing risk of Russian invading Poland again. Though deployment should not be premature.

But I hope that production and stockpiling of enough mines is ongoing.

If you think that is indefensible - are you aware of how WW II went for Baltics, Poland, Belarus? In Poland about 16% of population was murdered, in Belarus about 20% of population was murdered. And Poland and Baltics got decades of occupation on top of that. Belarus still has not managed to get from Russia's boot as of 2026.