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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 igravious »

microtonal wrote: post #42
igravious wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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.

At the time I posted my comment their post was down-voted and it was obvious why so but articulating that is verboten? Oh dearie me, whatever shall I do.

I know about the guidelines, I've been on here since 2010, like yourself.

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

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Post by deniska »

walrus01 wrote: post #10
Drupon wrote: post #3

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There's plenty of screenshots and info online showing that wildberries was (and still is) stocking and selling single use munition FPV parts for use by russians building drones for their own offensive military operation against Ukraine. If you turn your warehouse into a storage depot for military equipment don't be surprised if the country you've invaded bombs it. The ukrainian leadership has been quite clear that at…

I mean… https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fpv+pcb

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

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Post by igravious »

distances wrote: post #40
RivieraKid wrote: post #31

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The US is providing some help but less so than Europe and much less so than what Ukraine is contributing. And by saying "to the last Ukrainian" you're spreading a Russian-propaganda narrative. This slogan has been repeatedly used by Russian officials (including Putin, Peskov, Zakharova, Matviyenko), it's a recurring theme in the Russian information space and it's used by Russian bots.

He's spreading overtly obvious Russian propaganda, he's clearly very aware of it and just prefers to take the side of evil.

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

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Post by distances »

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

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> 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)

All countries distancing themselves from Russia and aligning with the EU have managed to reduce corruption. It's a winning formula, so will very likely happen with Ukraine too after the corrupting Russian influence is eradicated.

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

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Post by RivieraKid »

microtonal wrote: post #32
RivieraKid wrote: post #23

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You're not the bad guys, there's a huge difference between the attack vs Iran and the attack vs Ukraine. Iran is an authoritarian regime which repeatedly said that Israel should cease to exist, has killed tens of thousands of their own people, aims to obtain nuclear weapons and supports 4+ terrorist organizations in the Middle East.

So abducting the leader of one country (against international law) and killing the leader of another country (against international law) is fine? aims to obtain nuclear weapons After a certain country shredded a nuclear deal and made it increasingly hard for international organizations to do inspections. supports 4+ terrorist organizations in the Middle East Because the US has never supported, funded, and trained ter…

> So abducting the leader of one country (against international law) and killing the leader of another country (against international law) is fine?

Depends on the leader and the country. Abducting or killing Hitler would be fine. The problem in this case was that killing the leader isn't enough to change the regime. But the regime is objectively evil and much more so than the US.

> After a certain country shredded a nuclear deal and made it increasingly hard for international organizations to do inspections.

Fair point, but the issue with the previous deal was that it forced Iran just to pause the program. Now they're possibly invulnerable and it may be the case that there's no way to stop them from developing nukes. The regime should have been removed when Iran didn't have thousands of ballistic missiles.

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

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Post by microtonal »

igravious wrote: post #20
option wrote: post #2

Good job, Ukraine! Russia must be destroyed in its current fascist form.

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Europe provided the vast majority of the funding: https://www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukrai...

Also, most recent developments on the battlefield are driven by Ukraine's own innovations - better drones, interceptor drones, their own cruise missiles, etc. All the lessons are being absorbed by Europe and the US.

By far most credit should go to the Ukrainians. They are the ones under attack, they are the ones defending democracy and freedom, and they are the ones who are resisting the Russians against all odds.

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

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Post by konart »

Xalutiono wrote: post #47
igravious wrote: post #25

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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 mone…

While I generally agree. this part:

>No new schools, no teachers / educated kids, no housing, no streets.

Is factually false on all accounts. (not sure I understand the "no streets" part though, are you talking about fixing pavement as a national sport?)

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

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Post by excieve »

p-e-w wrote: post #13
SubiculumCode wrote: post #7

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There comes a time. How many apartments have been bombed by Russia?

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.

There's no such thing as "both sides" here. It's a fundamentally flawed argument in this war. One country launched an unprovoked full scale war on a much smaller country with the goal of a colonial conquest (hopefully that's very clear by now). The amount of atrocities it has already done against Ukraine and its people will never be outweighted by pretty much anything Ukraine can do in the future as a part of its literal survival efforts.

Besides this, the laws only exist when there's something to enforce them. Has anything (apart from Ukraine's "kinetic sanctions") been enforcing much on the invader to make them obey those "laws"? At least treating POWs with dignity (like Ukraine generally does btw) and not putting them through the Gulag system that russia has revived with newfound cruelty?

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

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Post by flohofwoe »

Drupon wrote: post #3

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Are you also so concerned about Russia lobbing ballistic missiles at Ukrainian city centers?

> if Iran managed to carry out similar attacks

Iran did manage to attack Amazon facilities, just not in the US: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-update-five-things-...

...and the US also attacked 'civilian infrastructure' in Iran:

https://www.dw.com/en/us-strikes-on-southern-iran-infrastruc...

Not sure why Ukraine should be singled out and berated for attacks on what are essentially dual use facilities. At least Ukraine doesn't do obious terror attacks against civilians like Russia does.

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