When I first came on here , we were. We were a tight nit group. We might have different ideas of how to get from point A to point B. But we were civil to each other. But, man, there ain’t no being civil to a Zeeper.
I mostly leave those threads alone. There's a lot of conflict and no chance for resolution. Add in the fact that there are paid propagandists populating those threads, and there really is no upside in participating.
marcusmaximus is an interesting case study. It's quite obvious he's a paid propagandist who (used to) barely put any thought whatsoever in his posts. He'd bang out these cliches such as "What ____ doink?", "Tell your Putin ______", "Kiev in 3 days, bring your parade uniforms", and "____ stronk like bull.".
But, upon calling him out on that, I've noticed he actually puts a little effort into his posts now, and even posts articles about things other than Ukraine. Surprisingly, he and I actually got into a pretty good exchange once. I guess I can tolerate a propagandist who brings something other than pure propaganda to the forum.
But as far as going on those Uke/Russia threads? I see no point.