Why the Technological Stalemate of War Terrifies the West and Is Ignored by the Kremlin
Strikes on Wildberries warehouses and recent news regarding the arrest in Stuttgart of a Ukrainian citizen—an agent of the Russian intelligence services who used Ukrposhta to mail packages containing specialized radio beacons—have illuminated a phenomenon that many long preferred not to discuss publicly.
This is not merely a matter of isolated acts of sabotage or the destruction of logistics hubs. What is unfolding exposes two fundamental shifts: the emergence of a new technological assembly line of war and a catastrophic mental divide between the governance styles of post-Soviet elites and the Western political class.
1. The Assembly-Line War of Beacons: From Dudayev to Wildberries
When Putin comments on the strikes against Wildberries in the vein of «Yes, there is damage, but it is not significant for the state and the economic system,» he misses the main point. The issue is not the financial losses of a single marketplace, but the successful field-testing of a fundamentally new sabotage technology. (далее…)
