[matkoniecz]

> Yes. But the what's the point of a convention about weapons that you only observe during peacetime and abandon as soon as war is at your gates?

You should ask people who supported or invented this convention. I never supported it and would support exit from it also before 2014 or 2022.

More cynical answer is that in time of peace refusing to sign up gives you bad PR so you sign up and in case of war you exit it (Finland, Poland, Baltics just did it) or ignore altogether (as Ukraine did). But it just weakens commitment to other conventions and PR hit would not be so bad, so I consider it as a mistake.

but signing up to it while Russia has not even pretended to do so was absurd.