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They do exactly that in sane countries. Russia just drops them out of airplanes with zero fucks given where they land.
Tbf Russia's PFM-1 is based off the US' BLU-43. The difference is the US went "Oh wow, this is a really bad situation" and stopped using them half a century ago.
Double tbf: Ukraine also has 5.5 million of these mines themselves.