1/ I'm very alarmed by the prospect of countries in Europe leaving the Mine Ban Treaty. A short thread on some relevant resources and responses is below (a topic which I brought up briefly in my #Trump50Days commentary earlier this week 👇) @minefreeworld.bsky.social
and 2 community colleagues write anonymously that "Cancellation of U.S. international cooperation contracts threaten the lives and livelihoods of thousands of war victims and their families around the world" #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
@yeshuamp.bsky.social "Chaos Я US" commentary examines impact USAID cuts related to Burma incl/ Burma-Thailand border where "Overnight, medical care for over 100,000 people was cut off like flipping a light switch... all patients were expelled. " #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
Camilo Serna, Asociación Campaña Colombiana Contra Minas, in "Politics of Contradiction" explains how cancelling mine-clearing project in Colombia will aid drug traffickers #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
Henrique Garbino "U.S. Funding Cuts to Humanitarian Demining" commentary argues the ultimate cost of this funding lapse will be measured in innocent lives lost and limbs shattered, + critically weaken U.S. influence in post-conflict recovery #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
@smhwpf.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social in "Forcing the UK to Rethink" says the UK’s perennial notion of acting as a bridge between the U.S. and Europe is rapidly losing credibility. #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
@frankslijper.bsky.social @paxvoorvrede.nl in "Europe Responding with Greater Militarization" says actions under Trump thus far has made Europe acutely aware that its longtime ally has turned into a potential adversary. #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
John Lindsay-Poland, Stop US Arms to Mexico @globalexchange.bsky.social in "Mexico is Moving Target for Trump’s Shooting Spree" sees opening for Mexico to press Trump to take more actions against illegal gun trafficking #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
Sheridan Cole and Haydn Welch @mideastdc.org "U.S. Security Assistance to Egypt - First Came the Waiver, Then Came the Threat" argue Trump should not use security assistance to #Egypt as a rhetorical cudgel to promote ethnic cleansing #Trump50days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
@sarahleah1.bsky.social @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social in "Dramatic and Dangerous" commentary argues Trump's approach to is certain to expand the conflict and further drag U.S. forces into supporting Israel’s endless wars #Trump50Days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
@saraedill.bsky.social sees in "Waging War on the International Criminal Court Through Sanctions" that Trump attempts to shield the world’s worst human rights violators and enable arms traders to profit from war crimes w/out fear of liability. #Trump50days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
William Hartung and Ashley Gate @quincyinst.bsky.social in "Open Season for Bribery?" see Trump lifting restrictions on bribery and reducing corporate transparency to grease the wheels for additional foreign arms sales by U.S. weapons makers #Trump50days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
@jeffabramson.bsky.social @cipolicy.bsky.social "Undoing Support for International Human Rights and Democracy" argues that under Trump one should not expect the U.S. to support intern'l humanitarian and human rights law, or promotion of democracy #Trump50days www.forumarmstrade.org/trump50days....
