Ukrainians “are covering up their true motives and accusing us of allegedly selling military goods,” she said. “But you can visit any global marketplace — Amazon or Alibaba — and see for yourself whether we have anything they don’t.”
Even giving her the benefit of the doubt, this only tells me that Amazon and Alibaba warehouses are also legitimate military targets; it doesn’t tell me that Wildberries is innocent.
You also don’t really have to put everything you sell on a public website. Pretty sure the military isn’t just going to amazon.ru to look for their missing drone parts.
This only tells me that there are certain sections of the system that are accessible only to certain tiers / classes of customers.
I can understand saying they’re not liable for losses due to force majeure, but I’m surprised she directly said people should wait for the Russian government to do something. Maybe there’s something in the works or I’m reading too much into it, but that seems a bit like actually placing the blame where it belongs.
From what I’ve read, there seems to be a lot of anger among Russians at their government for slow-walking the war and trying to compromise with the west. Also this is an election year so everyone will be pressuring the government to do stuff they want.
Most Russians do not really care about the war and the Russian media has generally portrayed the situation positively - they’re taking land, stop 99.99999999% of drones, the sanctions do nothing, etc. Until comparatively recently, you could live your life as though it wasn’t happening at all. Maybe you’re talking about people on telegram but they’re a tiny minority.
People don’t pressure the government in Russia.
Kind of hard to argue you are not a legitimate target when the warehouses have significant anti-air defense systems.
And house a fuck load of their drone parts
