Wikimedia maintains a world news section [0] that is well linked to the context. Hacker News is not optimized to provide the prerequisite context for a topic like this. Topics like these attract bikeshedding value statements rather than extended breakdowns of topics and links to primary sources.

[0] https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

Everything you say can be true and it doesn't change the fact the HN would be worse because of it.

HN is a place I come to escape the rest of the internet.

I hope it doesn't get ruined by politics, like everything else in the world seems to have been.

I like hearing and considering arguments to change the status quo.

I already understand the status quo, so I don't enjoy hearing arguments which defend the status quo.

This is simply not a good forum for that, precisely because it's populated by people whose knowledge of political events is sparse.