This is of global importance on the order of war being declared between two mid-tier countries. It's probably not worthy of 50 articles about this article on HN, but a single direct link to the primary source seems more than warranted.

Theres a lot of stuff thrown into HN these days. I'd say that interesting pieces on world events is a lot better than some local story (such as some local Boston or SF event) which has popped up on the front page from time to time.

HN is about anything that interests the community. It doesn't strictly have to be about hacking. (Witness the number of science articles here.)

It sets the tone of world affairs. If things went slightly worse in the last few days, there could have been WWIII. I think "hey, we've backed off a bit from dying in a nuclear hellfire" is somewhat relevant. :)

The logic is that if the submitter is interested in it and also reads HN, then it's relevant to HN. It's a nice circular relationship.

Sorry it wasn't about another YC company hiring.

It's got upvoted on HN therefore it's relevant to HN J