The Russian armed forces have liberated the settlement of Zybino in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
    • m532@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Liberal Idealism: The belief that reality is what every human believes, and that reality can be changed by selectively dehumanizing those who believe in “inconvenient” facts.

      • GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml
        3·
        6 hours ago

        The United States of America has already won the war. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline lies idle, and EU countries have imposed extensive sanctions on Russia.

        What American strategists feared was a Russia–Germany tandem leveraging Russian energy and German technology.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          3·
          6 hours ago

          And now Germany suffers because it can’t access Russian energy. Win/Win for the US.

          I think that’s a short-term victory, though. In the long run this will drive the EU away from the US.