man risked it (and lost it) all for a secret 2nd wife marriage registration, the things people will do for a piece of paper

(He was already scared of the embassey, but someone working there called him and told him they were cool now and he trusted it enough to go in)

According to Cluster Munition Monitor 2022, the list of 16 countries that refuse to sign the convention and produce cluster munitions included Brazil, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Israel, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, the United States and Turkey.

Ukraine is also not a signatory but doesnt make them

For context these countries both make them and don’t ban them and both Ukraine and Russia have used them already in this war, Ukraine was probably just running out of their Soviet era stock of them that they inherited from the dissolution

And obviously all landmine and landmine adjacent weapons are indiscriminate and kill decades after they were placed, one of the most evil weapons out there

this can have a showdown with