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Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by Quothling »

Drupon wrote: post #3

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You obviously wouldn't, since it would be happening to you. It's war though. We don't like to talk about it but WW2 was won in parts by fire bombing major cities all over Germany. It didn't start that way, in the beginning the targets were mainly military, but as the war went on, things changed. I am not as familiar with the war in the pacific, but we all know that two nuclear bombs were used to avoid an invasion of Japan.

That being said the modern war logisitcs (and economy) are sort if wild. Imagine the USA and Canada were in a land war and you needed parts for a bunch of drones. Rather than turning to your goverment or official military industrial complex, you'd turn to Temu resellers on Amazon to get your fiberoptic spool. Which means it's a legitimate target, but I suspect that it's also a great way to impact a lot of Russian citizens without fire bombing them.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by microtonal »

igravious wrote: post #9
Drupon wrote: post #3

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In case you missed it in the guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is probably why your comment is getting downvoted.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by jwr »

txzl wrote: post #33
ur-whale wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and more corruption-free nation I'm really rooting for Ukraine here, and it looks like they are well on their way to succeeding pushing Russia out. But the corruption issue ... for this particular problem, old habits unfortunately die really, really hard. When corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society the way it has in Ukraine, and for such a long time, rooting it out will be very, very hard. Th…

Any examples of nations that succeeded in this regard? (currently corruption-free states)

Poland, while not entirely corruption-free, has managed very well after the transition from Russian-dominated communism. For reasons I still do not understand, organized crime was rooted out in the 90s, and gambling restricted to almost nothingness (gambling is always tied to organized crime).

Not perfect, but doing pretty well, and the effects can be seen.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by 21asdffdsa12 »

ur-whale wrote: post #26
SubiculumCode wrote: post #4

Ukraine's innovation and perseverance under extreme duress is inspirational. I hope they continue their path towards a stronger, more democratic and more corruption-free nation who can stand tall and resist tyrannical States like Russia

> and more corruption-free nation I'm really rooting for Ukraine here, and it looks like they are well on their way to succeeding pushing Russia out. But the corruption issue ... for this particular problem, old habits unfortunately die really, really hard. When corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society the way it has in Ukraine, and for such a long time, rooting it out will be very, very hard. Th…

When socialism gets a chance to push its culture into a society, it really all goes down the drain hard and fast, they are great at using natural circumstances to push a revolution, but what they do with the conquered societies is beyond horrifying. The Inter-generational damage in corruption and zero-sum distrust is staggering.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by logicchains »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #39
ur-whale wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and more corruption-free nation I'm really rooting for Ukraine here, and it looks like they are well on their way to succeeding pushing Russia out. But the corruption issue ... for this particular problem, old habits unfortunately die really, really hard. When corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society the way it has in Ukraine, and for such a long time, rooting it out will be very, very hard. Th…

> corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society It is part of every society, but Ukrainians and the west perceive it as a problem for Ukraine while, say, Danes do not, although Denmark [1] is utterly corrupt in its own ways. Corruption is problem only for states that underwent recent political transitions and where class struggle has not been a thing for various reasons. Ukraine improves quickly, but…

Corruption in Ukraine is democratized; corruption in the EU is only for the rich and powerful.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by yukai »

Xalutiono wrote: post #27
p-e-w wrote: post #13

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The laws of war apply at all times to all belligerents, and the enemy breaking them does not justify breaking them in turn. If the current global crisis ever ends, how the world deals with human rights violations on both sides of this conflict will reveal whether any of this actually matters, or whether it’s all just a slugfest where the only objective is to determine who comes out on top.

I never understood 'laws of war'. there is no law in war. Please country a only fight with this type of attacks so that the people you kill are only people forced to fight against you to protect themselves but not the civilians. War is war. You kill and destroy a country thats it. Its not a conflict? Russia/Putin started to attack Ukraine. Thats it, russia is bad, ukraine is not. Oh no don't use cluster bombs they ar…

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Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by Xalutiono »

igravious wrote: post #25
paganel wrote: post #16

Russia will cave in economically any minute now, they’ve been on the brink of economic collapse since March 2022. In fact rural Russia is poorer than Africa, so the sanctions are definitely working.

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"Ok guy" :D are you russian?

anyway russia has a high GDP for sure but guess what it did the last 4 years? It threw that money into ukraine without getting anything from it.

No new schools, no teachers / educated kids, no housing, no streets. Instead taking out massive loans, reducing their reservers.

And now no one is willing to buy russian bonds.

Russia is hurting itself A LOT and is now going after retirement money.

Russia HAS to start selling oil again but has to spend a lot of time and money on fixing what got destroyed while the war is still ongoing and the tacktik clearly shows how well it works. Ukraine will not stop tomorrow just because.

As long as russia is not winning or stoping this, its very very expensive for everyone in russia.

Collapse no clue how you would define it but at least from a world power russia already collapsed. The only two things keeping russia at this 'level' is their oil and the nuclear threat.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

logicchains wrote: post #45
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society It is part of every society, but Ukrainians and the west perceive it as a problem for Ukraine while, say, Danes do not, although Denmark [1] is utterly corrupt in its own ways. Corruption is problem only for states that underwent recent political transitions and where class struggle has not been a thing for various reasons. Ukraine improves quickly, but…

Corruption in Ukraine is democratized; corruption in the EU is only for the rich and powerful.

This is another way to put it, yes.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by Xalutiono »

yukai wrote: post #46
Xalutiono wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never understood 'laws of war'. there is no law in war. Please country a only fight with this type of attacks so that the people you kill are only people forced to fight against you to protect themselves but not the civilians. War is war. You kill and destroy a country thats it. Its not a conflict? Russia/Putin started to attack Ukraine. Thats it, russia is bad, ukraine is not. Oh no don't use cluster bombs they ar…

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Because every other country on the planet would declare war and i would also assume USA would assesinate Putin for it.

Re: Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries

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Post by rasz »

Drupon wrote: post #3

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>Does this not very simply constitute a large scale attack on civilian infrastructure?

you mean like this "Russia Hits Nova Poshta Hub in Zaporizhzhia, Drone Attacks Kill 2 in Sumy" https://www.kyivpost.com/post/72051 March 17, 2026 ?

also https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/23/europe/russia-ukraine-con...

"A search for “military supplies” on the Wildberries website Thursday yielded over 78,000 items, including body armor, first aid kits and rations. The site also offers drone equipment, including FPV goggles and kit that can be used on the battlefield."

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