The attacks began on a July weekend and have continued for a month, stretching from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to cities in the south, and eastward to the Ural Mountains. The targets weren’t oil refineries, maritime hubs or arms plants hit by other Ukrainian strikes, but warehouses that bring the convenience of online shopping across the breadth of Russia.
Ukraine’s drones have pummeled the giant depots belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public.
The attacks on about 20 Wildberries facilities have underlined Kyiv’s ability to strike far and wide inside Russia and posed a new challenge to President Vladimir Putin nearly 4½ years into his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
They have badly shaken the empire built by Tatyana Kim, the country’s richest female entrepreneur, whose fortune has been estimated at $8.1 billion.
Ok my company has an Amazon wish list for Ukrainian soldiers does that mean its cool if Russia missiles Amazon warehouses and trucks
Depends, if you mean just war theory and international law:
Brian Orend - The morality of war - jus in bello
I think the grand majority of us are okay with Russia targeting Amazon.
Amazon is such a shit company.
Yes. Military logisitics hubs are valid targets in war. The same way Iran targeting Amazon’s datacenters in UAE/Bahrain were valid targets, as Israel/US use AWS for targeting Iran.
Ecommerce sites that do not want to be targeted should not sell or ship wartime goods. Wildberries was specially egregious, as it had a dedicated tag called “Everything for the SVO” that was just for supplying soldiers in the Ukraine war, but all companies who do are valid targets.
I think if we are to be honest about this, targeting Amazon warehouses would be met with outrage in the west. Even though my company’s wish list for Ukrainian soldiers definitely includes equipment meant for the front lines such as ifaks
In the extremely specific hypothetical case of Russia attacking an Amazon warehouse, I’m rooting for the Russian missile.
You seen to have glossed over the fact that Wildberries had a specific “things to kill Ukrainian” tag in their store, so its not a 1:1 comparison.
But yes, the US probally shouldn’t get into a war of choice with a foreign power within range of any Amazon warehouses. They would indeed be a valid target, albeit one more nebulous than the “buy these things to kill those specific people” storefront that is Wildberries.
Russians should be outraged that the war continues, but Ukraine is entirely within its right to target wartime logistics hubs that are directly equipping enemy soldiers, no matter the coat of paint on it, or whether that logistic hub also sells candy bars and t-shirts.
Yeah they should shot Amazon warehouse and data center.
That would be very cool, indeed!