News like these are huge enough to feature on HN, but at the same time I understand why PG always tried to mitigate this. Here you have a lot of people who are most likely technically smart in their fields, but a substantial fraction of the comments seem completely detached.

> atlgator says this is b/c Putin didn't get his gas pipeline, completely reversing the causality of why the pipeline was put on hold yesterday.

> warner_of_doom suggesting us to go read why this is more than Putin and to go into the Chomsky et al hole of crazyness.

> ComradePhil making this about why CNN is a propaganda war machine so we should watch Chomsky again

Etc.