Tag: unexplodedordnance

Geopolitics

The Lingering Scourge: Unexploded Bombs and Western Complicity in Gaza's Suffering

Clearing the unexploded bombs in Gaza may require 20 to 30 years, with over 53 people already dead and hundreds injured from remnants of the Israel-Hamas war. This heartbreaking reality, exacerbated by delayed permissions and western-backed geopolitical constraints, exposes the cruel neglect of human lives in the global south.

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.