I feel like this is going off topic from the thread, so pulling it here. But yes, pretty much the Alliance and the Coalition takes care of most of the issues of knowing what’s what in political terms. We also get regular updates telling us what’s going on, with weekly status reports and Q and A sessions.
If it helps in your considerations, I came to Goonswarm not for Goonswarm, @Pieter_Tuulinen, but because there’s a bunch of folks I know who flew beside me in Providence all grouped within VC. I may well move on from Goonswarm itself proper very soon to rejoin my die hard brothers and sisters in arms of Pentag Blade who’ve formed a new corporation within Initiative Mercenaries, which is still part of the whole Imperium organisation. But again, knowing the politics counts for nothing and either in GS or Init Mercs I’m free to do plenty of other things outside of the great game of chess, like raiding the warzones for targets or taking a sabbatical in W-Space.
That’s my motivation for being out here. It’s not super high commitment, I get a lot of freedoms and the hurf and blurf is just that, hot air, meaningless. But you should make your own call based on your own principles Pieter.