Posted on 05/07/2024 12:58:37 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
All five Central Asian presidents are scheduled to attend a parade on Red Square on May 9 to commemorate the end of World War II in Europe in 1945, while the majority of the world's leaders continue to condemn Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022.
Yury Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, on May 7 said Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, and Turkmen President Serdar Berdymukhammedov will attend the event in the Russian capital’s Red Square.
Ushakov added that President Miguel Diaz-Canel of Cuba, President Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos, and President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau will also be present.
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Good thing they aren’t getting snubbed by the president of Guinea-Bissau. It is such an important country!
Smart move, they have seen how Putin behaves towards Russia’s neighbors.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel of Cuba
Read somewhere him and Putin were going to discuss the possibility of having some sort of Ruskie military presence in Cuba.
Gosh, that Partnership for Peace Program really worked out.
One lesson of the Cold War is that in the world of geopolitics, every country is an important country.
“Read somewhere him and Putin were going to discuss the possibility of having some sort of Ruskie military presence in Cuba.”
Russia uses contractors to protect the host country’s leaders. They’re mostly bodyguards and Russia gets paid in whatever that country produces. Gold, oil, diamonds, or, in this case, pineapples, bananas and sugarcane.
Maintaining fighters, bombers, or a submarine base would be colossally expensive. Don’t think we have much to worry about there. At the moment, they don’t have the spare change.
We need to drill.
I prefer the economics test: What would happen if this country vanished from the face of the earth suddenly?
Why shouldn’t the Central Asians attend? Their citizens were a large part of the victory. What’s your problem with this victory parade? are you hoping for a terror attack? You are one sick weirdo.
Tell Putin to bury Lenin’s corpse.
Putin won’t do that. He’s a Communist.
You are wrong.
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