• masquenox@lemmy.ml
    15·
    1 year ago

    I’m afraid not - goon squads around the world still has tons of chemical weapons for use against pesky protests. And then we’re not talking about all the toxic stuff they use during colonialist wars under the thin pretext of “defoliants”…

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      5·
      1 year ago

      You don’t even have to have nefarious intentions. Chlorine gas is a perfectly normal industrial chemical, but simply dropping a few tanks over a trench system turns it into a chemical weapon.

  • Raphael@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    tldr; the world’s warmongers announced they finally destroyed the last of their chemical weapons, at least the ones they decladed to have.

  • zephyrvs@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, sure, there are no stockpiles hidden somewhere by secret services or criminal enterprises. 🤔

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      1 year ago

      Thus the quotes.

      This is still pretty big, though. I imagine further legislation will be easier if the negotiators can say that legally nobody has any chemical weapons right now.

      Of course, I’m sure there’s facilities that could start making them in a hurry.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
        2·
        1 year ago

        Also, the world at least claiming there aren’t any may increase the political costs of their use. Any country that wants to use them will face the backlash or being the “only one” to have them, even if it may not technically be the truth.

    • masquenox@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      somewhere by secret services or criminal enterprises.

      You say that as if they are two separate things.

    • sockinacock@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the big players have replaced chemical weapons with something just as horrible but more “smart” like micro-drones with explosive charges and facial recognition.