The War in Europe

Thread moved here from the Proposed New Topics forum.

From the Forum Guidelines:

5. Bare links with no supporting discussion should be avoided. Make the argument in your own words and use links as supporting references.

Because of your lengthy history of posting bare links, your link permissions have been removed. You will no longer be able to include links in messages.

It isn't what you're saying. It's how you're saying it, or more accurately, that you're not saying it. The bare link issue has been explained to you enumerable times and has been in the Forum Guidelines since time immemorial. Here are some helpful excerpts from a discussion at reddit (Bare Links are Bad Posts). Discussions like this can be found all over the Internet:

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I have seen a spate of posts here recently that contain nothing but a link.

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These, in my humble opinion, suck.

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I will not click on them, I will not comment on them, I won't engage with them positively at all.

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I will downvote them without a second thought.

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I think we should update our rules to disallow them.
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There's just about no reason to just post bare links. Give some context.
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I agree, and am not a fan of them in any regard.
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If idiots want to say something, they really should add the context which says something.
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We have made it clear in the past that this includes posts that are too short. We have also disabled link-posts. We did that for a reason; this sub is for discussion - hopefully good and meaningful discussion - not for links.

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If you link something, describe it in the post itself.

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