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both a mistake to believe something is not political in a general sense just as it’s a mistake to confuse different specific politics.

Every organization has its own politics. Diversity of opinions is good and enables progress and that’s the whole purpose of science if you think about it. However confusing national politics or petty politics with the main competing forces is a mistake.

To make it even more complicated, there’s not even a main political struggle within any organization. Simplified, there’s one of ideas around the scope of work and one about organization - and yes these are or should be intersecting, but things are in motion and can’t be perfectly intersecting.

So all is political and everything will mix, but there should be a ranking of priorities and a common sense of why extremes of any kind are deeply wrong. And firing people in science for national political reasons would be extreme and wrong.

Everyone should remember that Germany was leading in science before it decided that nationalism should be absolute and practically destroyed its scientific leadership and never recovered. Moreover all those kicked out found their place in United States and eventually built the modern scientific world from computers to the atomic bomb.