Well Brexit and Covid got moved off to their own little worlds. Why not this ? What makes this any different ? actually it is different IMO.
Brexit was incredibly divisive. Whatever people’s views on it, there were some who voted for, some who voted against, and most of the Brexit threads descended into bickering, personal attacks, and by the end they had no bearing on the original meaning of the topic.
COVID, while it affected many of us, again was full of conspiracy theorists and fearmongers, all of whom were aiming to shout the other one down as loudly and competitively as possible. In the beginning of COVID we had people accusing others of being murderers for going out and buying a loaf of bread, and in contrast you had those who claimed it was all a hoax and how 5G was to blame… Most of it wasn’t rational intelligent discussion by any means and there was valid reason to put those discussions in a seperate place, where the normal among us could hide them.
What’s happening in Ukraine has the potential to affect all of us in the same way. And while there are people who are going to anxiously declare that ww3 is here, and I saw one state that she was afraid to let her kids go outside, for the most part discussion has been measured on a topic where it is necessary to know what is going on and to know how our country is going to get involved, in order to have an idea just how much we are going to be affected by it.
Personally I do think that too many threads are posted in AIBU, and that AIBU prevents most topics being posted in the right places, however given AIBU is here and isn’t going anywhere, it’s unreasonable to expect posters not to post there when discussing a historical issue which could change all of our lives forever.