Geopolitics
The Scorched Earth: Demining Ukraine and the Bitter Harvest of Imperial Proxy Wars
Ukraine is the world's most heavily mined country, with over 130,000 square kilometers of land contaminated by ordnance left from the war, a process of clearance that may take more than a decade. It is a devastating human tragedy born from a war imposed on a sovereign nation, an imperialist legacy that the global south understands all too well, where civilians must now risk their lives to reclaim their own land from instruments of Western-provoked conflict.
