I couldn’t put my finger on why I always wake up to a mountain of notifications, but rarely get many through the daytime hours. Started checking against timezones and — perhaps unsurprisingly — most of the responses I receive either shitting on the U.S. military or Ukraine come during the prime hours of GMT+2 to GMT+4 (i.e., eastern Russian / Moscow time).
I guess it kind of makes sense. Someone literally started writing Russian in response to me yesterday, lol.
Thank you for providing the link to the ban logs - I wasn't aware the sub had them. And in turn I have to admit, I do see a couple of accounts there that were vocally anti-Russian - but also rather aggressive and uncivil about it - before getting the boot just last week... as well as a couple of general purpose assholes that really should've just stayed in ConPro. So overall, I think in both cases they were booted for assholery rather than political reasons.
As for arguments, the spectrum here is fairly wide, even among the Russian posters I've talked with. My own stance, especially in light of some recent events, is that the conflict is an engineered prelude to a global economic restructuring, while also serving as a weapons dump for obsolete hardware - with both sides taking advantage of it. That said, there most likely are numerous casualties on the front lines, since not everyone has gotten the memo, but overall, it's a media spectacle more than anything else. And it might be for the best, if a couple of other event chains I'm monitoring turn out the way I suspect.