You have to hand it to the transnational elite. They know how to keep their eye on the ball when it comes to promoting their insane ideology. 

Whatever you think of the West's continuing role in perpetuating the Ukraine war, it's hard to get upset with funding the removal of land mines and other explosives left on the battlefield once the fighting is over. 

In any given year, thousands of civilians are killed by explosives left after a conflict, and given that much of Ukraine is farmland it just makes sense to put some effort into disposing of unexploded munitions before innocent people get hurt. I certainly don't begrudge mine clearing efforts. 

Call me crazy, I am unconvinced that the people in charge of the project should be focused on diversity and inclusion, and it's not just Canada that is putting time and effort into making sure that the people involved in projects like this are promoting DEI. 

Justin Trudeau is spending $4 million to promote gender-transformative removal of explosives in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/Sw3iMUfLWy

— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) February 25, 2024

First, the Canada grant for mine clearing is described thusly:

Gender-inclusive demining for sustainable futures in Ukraine
Funding: $4 million
This project from the HALO Trust aims to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of Ukrainians, including women and internally displaced persons, by addressing the threat of explosive ordnance present across vast areas of the country. Project activities include conducting non-technical surveys and subsequent manual clearance in targeted communities; providing capacity building to key national stakeholders; and establishing a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine.

I was so blown away by the tweet that I dug around a bit and searched for the term "gender-inclusive demining" and found out that DEI is actually a major part of the United Nations' program to remove land mines around the world. 

They have DEI for explosives removal. 

Really. We can't have too many White men doing this satisfying and remunerative task. Women, the disabled, and drag queens need to get their cut of the booty. 

The United Nations has, helpfully, produced a 70-page publication on how to diversify the landmine-clearing effort, and it makes for fascinating reading. 

At first I wanted to believe that all the talk about cultural sensitivity served a good purpose--educating tribal members on how to recognize and avoid dangerous explosives. That made sense to me--you would deal with stone-age technological cultures differently than, say, Egyptians or Europeans. It just makes sense. 

But no, that's not the only concern. The program also ensures that all the rungs on the intersectional ladder are climbed. 

I am not exactly sure what religion, disabilities, legal status, or LGBTI (no Q?) issues have to do with landmine removal, but I am certain that the UN has a good reason to care deeply about these issues when it comes to who clears the mines or how fast. 

It seems that a major part of the program isn't clearing landmines but rather restructuring the culture along UN-approved lines. We can have a debate about whether to and how best to reform cultures along Western lines, but one has to wonder whether using landmine clearance efforts to implement a cultural revolution is the smartest idea:

Objectives – consider developing gender-related objectives from the start of the project. This helps to set expectations and provide an end goal towards which gender mainstreaming and/or targeted activities can be focused. Gender-sensitive indicators and indicators measuring targeted activities should also be developed. See section 3.3 for guidance on developing indicators.

Personnel - recruitment should be gender-sensitive and responsive (see section 2.1 on Personnel and Recruitment) and recruiting mixed gender teams or individuals from specific marginalised groups may be advisable to overcome barriers identified in the gender and diversity analysis (see section 2.2 on Interaction with Communities). Specific training may be required for new staff, such as driving lessons for female staff or cooking lessons for male staff (if identified as a skills gap).

Silly me, when I think of tax dollars going to clearing landmines to save the limbs and lives of women and children, I thought the tax dollars were going to clearing landmines to save the limbs and lives of innocents. 

Little did I know that I was actually funding an effort to reform non-Western societies into a rainbow wonderland. 

An inclusive and gender-balanced workforce increases the efficiency and effectiveness of mine action activities and benefits the community as a whole by ensuring a more coherent response to the different needs and priorities of women, girls, boys and men affected by contamination. A gender-balanced workforce also supports an agenda of equal rights, and programmes with more balanced staff composition report a better team atmosphere, improved satisfaction at work, and improved discipline.

That, to me, looks to be ex post facto rationalization. Does anybody believe that having a gender-balanced workforce actually improves mine clearing? 

I don't. If a woman is inclined to do the job and is good at it, then great. Have at it. But scraping the bottom of the barrel in order to find 50% more women strikes me as a good way to get people killed. 

As for LGBTI mine clearers? Happy to have anybody clear mines, because I sure as hell wouldn't want to, but I suspect the employment pool is pretty small for gender-diverse transsexual bomb disposal techs. 

It goes on and on. The rabbit hole seems endless. 

Call me crazy, but what I want out of any landmine clearing program funded by taxpayer dollars--and given that this is a UN-sponsored effort, lots of Western countries are funding this crap--is lots of landmines cleared. I suspect that the supposed beneficiaries of all this DEI-inspired effort care even less than I about who is doing the clearing. 

I suspect they just don't want any more limbs blown off. 

So often I think that our elite doesn't have their eye on the ball, but that would be wrong. 

They are just playing a much different game than you or I.