We've banned this account. It's always been against the guidelines to engage in political or ideological battle on HN, and repeatedly posting slurs about an entire nation is never acceptable here. It's one thing to critique a nation’s government and military in recent times; quite another to slur an entire people and its culture and history. HN is a site that reaches everywhere in the world and welcomes people from every nation, and it's not cool to post in ways that make people feel they don't belong here simply because of the country they were born into.

Further, almost all your comments in recent days have been inflammatory, fulminatory or merely curmudgeonly, all of which is explicitly against the guidelines. We've asked you before to observe the guidelines, and with this pattern of activity in the past few days, a ban is necessary if we're to have any standards at all.

If you don't want to be banned, you can email us ([email protected]) and commit to respecting the site and its guidelines in future.