re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Respectfully responding: Why isn't THIS thread on the poli-board and not the OT?

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Because, fundamentally, it's not about politics, but rather about war. That is, it's about battles, tactics, military equipment, the terrain and weather, logistics, and strategy.

For those of us who are regulars in the thread, politics is only discussed in the ways that it relates to these things. So, I will write here stuff such as "Sen. McConnell says that Biden needs to accelerate US aid to Ukraine," because that's a bit where the politics influences the war -- it's still about the war.

But then we have Politards who invade the thread who want to hijack the thread to argue about whether we should support Ukraine or not. That's a Poliboard topic. Some of us regulars in this thread (myself included) are strongly pro-Ukraine, and some are not, but we all accept as normative the fact that the US government has decided that supporting Ukraine is in the strategic interest of the United States, because that is a fact, and accepting it allows us to talk about the war.

But the thread is constantly hijacked by those who want to come in here and argue that the US should not support Ukraine, and that's a discussion that strictly belongs on the Poli Board. Sadly, there aren't mods who care enough to help keep the thread focused.