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Kremlin leaders have spent years demonizing Ukrainians as “Nazis,” despite the complete absence of any actual far-right politicians in the Ukrainian government.
1 posted on 05/09/2023 9:28:16 PM PDT by Cronos
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one tank parade

2 posted on 05/09/2023 9:29:41 PM PDT by Cronos
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Already posted

I would point out over the decades this is not the first time they’ve only used one tank etc


3 posted on 05/09/2023 9:30:39 PM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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The theatrics of a parade are hardly evidence one way or the other of how well they are doing in Ukraine.

Another propaganda article. It is all we get from either one side or the other it seems anymore.

Both Ukraine and Russia’s crushing defeats have been “weeks” or “days” away now for 14 months.


4 posted on 05/09/2023 9:33:08 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Retarded. Anyone with the slightest sense of decorum would know you don’t throw the normal festive event in the middle of people and soldiers sacrificing. You do a somber event, don’t waste your assets for parades, and instead… roll out a single T-34 to remind people that it’s a critical, hard and existential fight.

It has the added benefit of reducing the needed logistical and security effort, and not providing a fat target for Uke terrorists.

Well played.


5 posted on 05/09/2023 9:36:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Putin brutally mocked over lone vintage tank in Russia’s scaled-down Victory Day parade

05/09/2023 2:35:18 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 44 replies
NY Post ^ | 5/9/2023 | Snejana Farberov

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4151970/posts

Panicky Putin rushes through speech at flop Victory Day parade with ONE rusty WW2 tank after Kremlin ‘assassination bid’

05/09/2023 5:17:46 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 24 replies
Sun UK ^ | 5/9/2023 | Tariq Tahir and Jerome Starkey

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4151802/posts


10 posted on 05/09/2023 9:55:17 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Exactly how many workable T34s would you expect them to have 78 tears after WW2 ends??


13 posted on 05/09/2023 10:11:26 PM PDT by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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“There are farmers in Ukraine with more tanks than that”

LOL


17 posted on 05/09/2023 10:29:00 PM PDT by Sunsong
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SOME MISCELLANEOUS BUT SALIENT OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE WAR IN UKRAINE

At the start of the “Special Military Operation” more than a year ago, the Ukrainian Army outnumbered the Russians by a factor of three. Even with their advantage in numbers, the Ukrainian defenses failed to stop the numerically inferior Russian force and failed to expel the Russians from the Luhansk and Donetsk territories.

We now are being enticed to believe that Ukraine, with a numerically inferior force compared to Russia’s current troop deployment, is going to mount an offensive, despite a severe lack of tanks, armored vehicles, mobile artillery and air cover, that will drive the Russians from fortifications erected during the last six months.

Ukrainian officials persist in making wild claims about Russian defeats, low morale and catastrophic casualties. There is a very simple test you can do to evaluate the Ukrainian claim about Russia’s losses — find the social media and count the photos and videos. If Russia had suffered the number of killed and wounded cited by Ukrainian and Western officials and pundits, then it would be impossible to hide those photos and videos. Social media and smart phones are ubiquitous and grieving wives, girl friends, parents and friends are not easy to corral.

Images and videos like the following are widely available on Ukrainian Telegram channels. The opposite is true when it comes to finding comparable material on Russian channels. There are a few photos of newly dug graves in a Russian military cemetery, but nothing like the quantity of images recording Ukraine losses.

23 posted on 05/09/2023 10:43:32 PM PDT by Kazan
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Too Much Firepower | Wagner Night Assaults Storm Final Ukrainian Defensive Positions in Bakhmut
24 posted on 05/09/2023 10:43:55 PM PDT by Kazan
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Polish General Skyrzypczak:

https://sonar21.com/polish-generals-finally-admit-the-obvious/

“Ukraine does not have the potential to take back 20% of its territories. If she were to re-take them, she would need a 3-1 advantage over the Russian army along the entire front on the strategic level, she would need around 2 million soldiers to rout them. They have no chance of this because they do not have the equipment. The plants in the West have no such possibilities, such potential. Hence the efforts on the part of the diplomats to end this conflict as it could turn out in a few months that we will not have anything to help Ukraine with.”

25 posted on 05/09/2023 10:45:35 PM PDT by Kazan
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Video of Russia's Victory Day parade:

We watched russia's "Victory Day" parade today with great interest. Our tribute: pic.twitter.com/56evOrTcnn— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) May 9, 2023


40 posted on 05/09/2023 11:22:07 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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https://www.businessinsider.com/socom-commander-ukrainian-sof-have-been-taking-it-to-russia-2023-5?amp=


45 posted on 05/09/2023 11:35:32 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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The catastrophic losses are being experienced by the hohos...


55 posted on 05/10/2023 12:02:02 AM PDT by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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Amazing how the Ukraine - Russia war has turned folks into zombie zealots for nations they never stepped foot in or even know the local languages.

Just like covid.

Propaganda is a might drug. LOL.


75 posted on 05/10/2023 3:20:41 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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are the reno - scummer

Waco creamy pants

in the Smithsonian yet

time to send over

the pentagon collection too


103 posted on 05/10/2023 12:16:38 PM PDT by Firehath
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“The globalist elites keep insisting on their exceptionalism; they pit people against each other, split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism, destroy traditional family values that make human a human,” Valdimir Putin 5/9/23.


109 posted on 05/10/2023 2:31:16 PM PDT by Kazan
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Image

Fake body double or real Putin at the military parade the other day that had just one ancient tank displaying

112 posted on 05/10/2023 2:50:50 PM PDT by dennisw
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Where are the memes for this?
A goldmine of an image for memes


142 posted on 05/12/2023 8:54:56 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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