In article , vzlion
wrote:

If so it shioyld be changed to rec.politics. This is suppose to be
about aviation, not politics. If it's to survive it needs a monitor to
scan out tyhe non-aviation subjects. If I want to read about politics
I'll go to another newsdroup or watch the news or read the paper.


it is not the newsgroup that has changed, it is the fact that this is
wartime and you are comparing it to the newsgroup as it existed in
peacetime.

i have seen rec.aviation.military become political before, during times
of brief u.s. military activity such as the kosovo war in 1999.

then afterwards, the newsgroup would revert back to on-topic aviation.
the difference is that there is no afterwards this time, the u.s. has
been at war 2 1/2 years with no end in sight.

so don't expect the politics to subside until it ends, whenever that
may be.