In principle, the state has one profession it can offer to millions of bankrupt traders and hundreds of thousands of Wildberries employees, to more than make up for the lion's share of their financial losses. I wonder how many would agree to the double motivation of earning money and getting revenge.

In principle maybe.
But with all of your resources strained including a growing constraint on internet access the reality will be despair and not reignitated enthusiam.
Russians in the major cities have been kept away from the war realities afar from their everyday life. Now it hits them ferociously with fear being a constant companion when you hear the drones.

Unfortuneatly most analysts don't see any deescalation on the horizon.

So we'll continue to see lose-lose situations.

This post was edited by Sankturio on Jul 23 2026 01:48am