@chjara @eri Yeah, 30 years into a projet should at very least predicted that people would raise a fuss when you kick a whole bunch of maintainers with no public reasoning attached with the patch or e-mail.

And as @tusooa puts, I'd wonder about the logic, in a way it's the kind of thing you'd expect to maybe trigger some kind of Code of Conduct or similar social contract document.
(Like "No maintainers related to military industrial complex of countries at war" could make sense)