Most of the Russian Federation is not is Europe geographically speaking. I am willing to count it as on-topic if it is explicitly in western Russia or if it is about something Russia did that is directly related to other European nations or has potentially a strong impact on those. This article is neither of that.
Yes I did, and I still fail to see the connection to Europe. This is a story about US and Russian inteligence services with Europe not even mentioned anywhere. And no, just because a small part of Russia is geographically in Europe is this suddenly news about Europe.
So you think because the article goes to excruciating length of documenting some Russian spys booking flight tickets in and around Europe but otherwise fails to make any convincing argument other than repeating the long known idea that this might have been an intelligence operation against US spys and their families, this becomes news about Europe?
This isn’t even news in general, but at most a nice spy story very thin on actual facts. It might very well be true but this isn’t news and just barely investigative journalism.
I wonder where the next goal post will be but I’m going to put in the towel since you’ve got the upper hand on what gets removed and what isn’t.
It’s obvious to me that my advice is both uninvited and will be ignored but I’ll give it regardless because I’m an asshole. If you make a mistake when modding, it’s better to say “sorry, my bad” and move on.
I might have let this one slip if I didn’t just had to remind another poster here that /c/europe is not for any recent “Russia is bad” article they can find on the net and constantly cross-post spam these here.
So I am sorry that I might have slightly over-reacted but I stand by my original idea that this article off-topic for this community.
I get it that people like posting “Russia is bad” articles here, because the other popular Europe community on Lemmy.ml is full with Tankie shit, but this kind of stuff gets boring real fast.
This is still off-topic. Can you please explain why you insist on posting this here?
I’d guess cuz Russia is in Europe, despite Europe not wanting to claim Russia and this story taking place in the Caribbean …
Most of the Russian Federation is not is Europe geographically speaking. I am willing to count it as on-topic if it is explicitly in western Russia or if it is about something Russia did that is directly related to other European nations or has potentially a strong impact on those. This article is neither of that.
I was taking a stab in the dark, please don’t take my response as an attempt to actually justify it.
Most of this story takes place in Europe and is very newsworthy. According to c/Europe description this community is for:
Since when is Cuba part of Europe? Nor are US diplomats/spys stationed there (or elsewhere) directly related to Europe.
What you’re telling me is that you didn’t read the article before deleting it.
Yes I did, and I still fail to see the connection to Europe. This is a story about US and Russian inteligence services with Europe not even mentioned anywhere. And no, just because a small part of Russia is geographically in Europe is this suddenly news about Europe.
In the BBC article there’s a link to Insider report that you have removed. Please read through more than the title of that report.
So you think because the article goes to excruciating length of documenting some Russian spys booking flight tickets in and around Europe but otherwise fails to make any convincing argument other than repeating the long known idea that this might have been an intelligence operation against US spys and their families, this becomes news about Europe?
This isn’t even news in general, but at most a nice spy story very thin on actual facts. It might very well be true but this isn’t news and just barely investigative journalism.
I wonder where the next goal post will be but I’m going to put in the towel since you’ve got the upper hand on what gets removed and what isn’t.
It’s obvious to me that my advice is both uninvited and will be ignored but I’ll give it regardless because I’m an asshole. If you make a mistake when modding, it’s better to say “sorry, my bad” and move on.
I might have let this one slip if I didn’t just had to remind another poster here that /c/europe is not for any recent “Russia is bad” article they can find on the net and constantly cross-post spam these here.
So I am sorry that I might have slightly over-reacted but I stand by my original idea that this article off-topic for this community.
I get it that people like posting “Russia is bad” articles here, because the other popular Europe community on Lemmy.ml is full with Tankie shit, but this kind of stuff gets boring real fast.
I didn’t even notice this was c/Europe…
It’s a good article, just nothing to do with Europe.
OP should post to news or a US politics community