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

Post by Xalutiono » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC

konart wrote: post #57

Xalutiono wrote: post #47

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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?)

Post by ur-whale » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC

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)

Post by igravious » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

konart wrote: post #65

distances wrote: post #40

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

Well, he is russian. It's pretty obvious to any other russian simply from the way he composes his replies.

Post by konart » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC

Xalutiono wrote: post #91

konart wrote: post #57

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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?)

Russia spends a lot of money on war and not on "new streets" or fixing existing streets. Long lasting infrastructure investments for longterm gains.

Post by red-iron-pine » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 2:34 PM UTC

gherkinnn wrote: post #61

walrus01 wrote: post #37

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> By contrast, bombing can have some effect on industrial production, but only in wars where that production matters and is available to be bombed The russian oil refineries that have been very successfully attacked seem to meet the definition of this. One obviously useful thing for the Ukrainians to do is to cut off the supply of refined diesel and petrol to the Russian army's vehicles. If this also has the effect o…

Indeed. And bringing the attacks deep in to Russia may embarrass the regime and may have led Putin to (allegedly) stage a frontline visit [0]. And yet we must never forget that there is no such thing as a wunder waffe and reducing German cities to rubble did not break the civilian resolve. Throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine I saw a common pattern: one side gains a technological or doctrinal advantage, may or…