Ukraine's Withdrawal From Anti-Personnel Landmine Treaty Could Haunt Generations

Sounds good!

Maybe in a full post. I also need to explain the whole Peter Thiel and post more about Indian communists, I will add it to the stack

Go for it, people need to know.

Strongly resisting the urge to go on a rant about how CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien would get into arguments regarding how hamfisted and Hitlerian their biblical analogies should be

"Orcs" were based on asiatic features, similar to the Mongol armies. The association with "orcs" is based on ethnicity, driving an image of an ugly, warlike species with no regard for life.

That's a dumb reason to fall for propaganda they used on your grandfather. Is it something in the water, maybe?

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.

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

It doesn't actually matter, because both Ukraine and Russia have already been heavily mining the frontlines for 3 years already.

You know what would also haunt generations? An invading force of evil that rapes and plunders their homes. An army of simple-minded snow orcs that don't have the spine to rise against their evil regime but instead bend to its will because it's easier than not.