this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
279 points (98.9% liked)

Ukraine

12698 readers
233 users here now

News related to Ukraine

Matrix Space

Community Rules

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Sympathy for invaders is prohibited.

🌻🀒No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

πŸ’₯Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

🚷[Combat] videos containing footage of a visible human must be flagged NSFW

No AI slop

❗ Server Rules

  1. Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.)
  2. No racism or other discrimination
  3. No Nazis, QAnon or similar
  4. No porn
  5. No ads or spam (includes charities)
  6. No content against Finnish law

πŸ’³ Defense Aid πŸ’₯

πŸ’³ Humanitarian Aid βš•οΈβ›‘οΈ

πŸͺ– Volunteer with the International Legionnaires

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
lisko@sopuli.xyz
doo@sh.itjust.works
Burstar@sopuli.xyz
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz
Burstar@piefed.ca
Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub
279
Putin wanted to make Russia great again. Instead, Ukraine is the new rising power in Europe (theconversation.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Russia is losing on the battlefield – and on the global stage, as the US and China distance themselves from the war.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They have a huge new manufacturing sector with world class experience unrivalled in Europe and the west.

They are seeing huge investment within tbe EU and have received very favourable funding terms.

The UK was paying off WW2 until a few weeks ago and they did just fine becoming a world power post devastating infrastructure damage.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

British empire sorta ended with WW2 tho. USA replaced Britain as the biggest world power, including Naval (thus trade) dominance. UK did rather fine despite it, because of the "special relationship" with their former colony, but the UK after WW2 was a lot less powerful and less dominant in the world than UK was before WW2... They for sure did not become a world power from it, they merely managed to sorta hold on to some of their "world power" status in the post WW2 world.