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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 red-iron-pine »

louthy wrote: post #18
option wrote: post #2

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

I don’t think it’s fascist? More of a kleptocratic dictatorship. I agree with the general sentiment though!

the guiding intellectual stream of the Russian government is Dugan, as best exemplified in Foundations of Geopolitics.

Dugan is unambiguously hard right and has intellectual ties to other openly fascist types. His ideology is explicitly ethno-centric and has a strong resemblance to classical Fascism (in the Ur-Fascism sense), and a looser one to German-style National-Socialist thought, esp. as it relates to Russian ethnic domination of Europe

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

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Post by Drupon »

walrus01 wrote: post #70
Drupon wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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If you're actually calling the Ukrainians, defending their own country against invasion, "terrorists", at this point you're just parroting RT and Sputnik English-language talking points.

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

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Post by maximinus_thrax »

drysine wrote: post #90
microtonal wrote: post #56

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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 t…

>by Ukraine's own innovations Like this? "British coder who revolutionised Ukraine’s drone army on paternity leave" [0] [0] https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/ru...

https://www.reuters.com/world/warehouse-russian-online-retai...

It seems Dingleberries failed to elect a new pope. Again.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

maximinus_thrax wrote: post #104
drysine wrote: post #90

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>by Ukraine's own innovations Like this? "British coder who revolutionised Ukraine’s drone army on paternity leave" [0] [0] https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/ru...

https://www.reuters.com/world/warehouse-russian-online-retai... It seems Dingleberries failed to elect a new pope. Again.

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

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Post by owebmaster »

distances wrote: post #78
spwa4 wrote: post #63

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As someone whose worked as a consultant for the EU for years, eventually realizing who the sales people of my company were (... related to), I wonder what you mean. I really wonder what you mean. Government spending is how the Brussels economy works (there's technically 11 and in practice about 7 different governments, all of whom have similar needs), and you get government spending assigned to you by "knowing" gover…

> I wonder what you mean I thought I was clear? I mean the western corruption isn't in any shape or form comparable to Russian corruption, and how it pervaded all the Eastern Bloc. It does take long time to root it out, as it affects and degrades the whole society. You really, really can't compare it to what we have in the west, and everybody is better off when they get to escape it.

> I mean the western corruption isn't in any shape or form comparable to Russian corruption

Is this good or bad? Is Russian corruption much worse or much better in the Epstein scale of corruption?

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

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Post by bulbar »

gherkinnn wrote: post #24

This is all good news, but one must remember that airpower alone does not win wars. > Overall then, the promise of strategic airpower, that it could win wars entirely or primarily from the skies, turns out so far to have been largely a mirage > Instead, efforts to use strategic bombing to coerce surrender have repeatedly shown that being bombed hardens civilian resolve to continue resisting. By contrast, bombing can…

> airpower alone does not win wars.

Not convinced that "winning" is the same as "stop the attacker from attacking"

> shown that being bombed hardens civilian resolve to continue resisting

Resist against what exactly in this case? Russian population is well aware they are the attackers and that Putin tries to invade Ukraine.

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

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Post by bulbar »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #100
mopsi wrote: post #86

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> They seem utterly bewildered by the fact Ukraine is even attacking Russia at all, it doesn't seem to make any sense to them. There was a recent comment chain on HN that showcased very well the pretzel that a surprisingly large number of Russians are turning themselves into to "explain" the events: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876070 They have been propagandized to such extent that they just cannot accept…

hyperreality and "the russian firehose" of propaganda means they're constantly blasted with distractions + real and false explanations. a busy person doesn't have the time to evaluate all of these and ultimately slips into intellectual shot-cuts, which is usually defaulting to a curator or aggregator they trust (which is also easy to control), or just rationalizing whatever stream of BS they feel most comfortable wit…

I think a lot of people are aware of the propaganda going on and never believed attacking Ukraine was about Nazis to begin with.

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

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Post by bulbar »

owebmaster wrote: post #106
distances wrote: post #78

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> I wonder what you mean I thought I was clear? I mean the western corruption isn't in any shape or form comparable to Russian corruption, and how it pervaded all the Eastern Bloc. It does take long time to root it out, as it affects and degrades the whole society. You really, really can't compare it to what we have in the west, and everybody is better off when they get to escape it.

> I mean the western corruption isn't in any shape or form comparable to Russian corruption Is this good or bad? Is Russian corruption much worse or much better in the Epstein scale of corruption?

Yes, Russian corruption is much worse. You only know about Epstein because there wasn't enough corruption to hide it indefinitely. Dozens of people where murdered by Putin for merely speaking out against him.

Corruption is also much more normalized in Russia. Bureaucrats will casually take money to work your case faster (or at all). I know that from old friends as they had to bribe people to get their case processed a few years ago (before Russia started the war).

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

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Post by pseudohadamard »

gherkinnn wrote: post #24

This is all good news, but one must remember that airpower alone does not win wars. > Overall then, the promise of strategic airpower, that it could win wars entirely or primarily from the skies, turns out so far to have been largely a mirage > Instead, efforts to use strategic bombing to coerce surrender have repeatedly shown that being bombed hardens civilian resolve to continue resisting. By contrast, bombing can…

You don't need to win militarily to win a war. This is how Germany was defeated in WWI. What Ukraine is doing is removing popular support for, or at best indifference to, the war.
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