I continue to follow the whining of Russians about Wildberries, and I like it. I don’t know where this kink comes from, but let it be.
But first, a story from life.
Once, I got beaten up pretty badly by a gang (Odessa gangs of the late 90s), and I ended up in the hospital. A classic set of injuries: ribs, concussion, a couple of fractures, damaged kidneys, and some minor bruises. None of the injuries were life-threatening. But I almost died then in the hospital. As the doctor said: “There are many injuries, and when they all start to pressure the body at once, it might not withstand it.” I was lucky; my kidneys started working again, I stayed with an IV and moved on.
So. Back to Russia.
It doesn’t have a single critical problem. There are many.
The inability of housing construction companies to repay bank loans is not fatal for Russia.
The inability to support the mining industry (coal and several other natural resources).
The inability to restore the country’s failed logistics complex (Russian Railways, road transportation, air transportation).
The inability to control the growth of unpromising bank loans.
The inability to manage inflation.
The inability to control the fuel crisis.
The inability to close the budget deficit.
The inability to compensate for losses to Wildberries sellers.
The inability…
Each of these things is not fatal for Russia. But together, they can trigger a domino effect that could eventually bring down the entire system. Putin doesn’t care, but Russians, who feel the dominoes’ downfall in their lives every day, start to whine.
Because it’s one thing to fantasize about another “small victorious war, because we are Russians, God is with us,” and quite another to end up in a 90s-like crisis, having lost the country, and left with a falling economy during an expeditionary operation in a foreign country, with an expeditionary group of about 700,000 personnel consuming enormous resources in these difficult times.
So now, cyclopean changes are happening. Russians are shifting from “We are Russian occupiers” to the stage of “Humiliated, but don’t beat us.” This shift is Ukraine’s work for the last 12 years. Do not ignore it; it’s a big event.
“We need to press, press, press, and they have to crumble” (c) Pavlo Petrychenko.
We still have to press, but they’ve already started to crumble. Let’s cross our fingers for the dominoes to fall as quickly as possible.
