LANDMINES: Trump reverses 30 years of US policy

Displaced boys from eastern Ukraine. Their homeland has been heavily contaminated by landmines. [UNICEF]

On January 31, 2020, as the nation was immersed in the impeachment proceedings, the Trump administration reversed thirty years of U.S. policy on the use of anti-personnel landmines. Couched as a part of Trump’s ongoing effort to enhance the defens…