What Wildberries probably is a Russian version of an earlier Amazon, when Amazon was not worth much and was struggling to find its way to become a major business, but in a much smaller, sanctions-plagued market like Russia
Thinking that if you take down Wildberries all Russian retail trade will collapse is wrong. No, it will not. Retail is one of the fastest-recovering, most flexible, and most fluid industries. Russia can live without it. It did so only a few years ago.
The main conclusion from Ukrainian strikes, sanctions, and all these sources of pressure is that the pressure is working. The cracks are visible. Ukrainian strikes are adding fuel to the fire, significantly and visibly exacerbating the crisis
The article also goes into more details related to the June partnership between Wildberries and VTB (“Foreign Trade Bank"), one of the biggest Russian players and second-biggest bank after Sberbank, and how big of a whole it is for them
They weren’t attacking it as a retail business. They attacked it because putin was using its contacts to buy military supplies for the army, labeling them toys, and bypassing sanctions.
They sold fiber optic spools for controlling drones, body armor and helmets. They are a military supplier now.
Why is there a never ending line of these kind of posts, pretending they are still just a retail business?
I don’t trust anything on Nazi-loving Substack, nor should you.
Shite. Now I need to find a replacement for substack.
A lot of people, especially aspiring writers trying to make a buck don’t know substack is a shit company, so I get it.
Alternatives: Patreon, Curated, Medium, Beehiiv, Ghost and Kit top the list for writers.
just to let you know, i’ve just migrated to self-hosted ghost. thank you!
Hurray! Docker or flat? Regardless, you’re in control and don’t have to pay anyone for access, especially nazis, which is always a relief. Congratulations!
Indeed. And thank you :)
I’ll use it as a showcase for my cloud architecture ideas, so right now it’s a basic single-vm with a plan to gradually optimise it into the oblivion (way beyond docker if l get my way) and document/blog the process.
