Ok, last time, it's not a place for a ****ing contest. It's to post information about political situations affecting conflict. Since my focus is contemporary conflict I have found it is almost impossible to separate one from the other.
Seriously, I don't think "news" and "rant" can be separated on an open forum. I can't count the number of threads on other forums I've seen locked because, despite frequent informative posts from folks on the ground in Ukraine, certain forumites couldn't control their urge to re-argue every pissing contest of the last 200 years(*)
The one place where such a thread survived it was because a moderator was located in Ukraine, so they could post news to a *closed* thread.
(*) -- The Crimean War discussion spilled quickly into who screwed up in the various former Yugoslav states. The Kyivan Rus discussion at least avoided modern politics (aside from Ukraine-Russia issues).
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