> so painting her as liberal I'm not "painting" anything, she's a Russian person who has just emigrated from Russia on account of this war and who also happens

> so painting her as liberal I'm not "painting" anything, she's a Russian person who has just emigrated from Russia on account of this war and who also happens to write in a literary online magazine, so most definitely she's not a conservative Slavophile. But, again, this might be a translation issue, because as I understand it calling someone a "liberal" in the States has become a slur, so that could explain your dissatisfaction with me calling her a liberal. > That as well as politics should ideally just stay out of here what is firstly a personal sad story, and also doesn't belong into HN? Glad that we agree on something.