Posted on 05/06/2022 9:30:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Vladimir Putin will send a "doomsday" warning to the West when he leads celebrations on Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, brandishing Russia's vast firepower while its forces fight on in Ukraine.
Defiant in the face of deep Western isolation since he ordered the invasion of Russia's neighbour, Putin will speak on Red Square before a parade of troops, tanks, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
A fly-past over St Basil's Cathedral will include supersonic fighters, Tu-160 strategic bombers and, for the first time since 2010, the Il-80 "doomsday" command plane, which would carry Russia's top brass in the event of a nuclear war, the Defence Ministry said.
In that scenario, the Il-80 is designed to become the roaming command centre for the Russian president. It is packed with technology but specific details are Russian state secrets.
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Less than two decades ago, U.S. President George W. Bush joined Putin for the May 9 celebrations in Moscow. This year no Western leader was invited, the Kremlin said.
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The Kremlin did not respond to requests for comment on what Putin might say in his speech, to be delivered from the Red Square tribune in front of Vladimir Lenin's Mausoleum.
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Big talk! PUTIN’S army and his equipment isn’t holding up too good.
The West has made sure he’ll never go home now you load Ukraine up with weapons and the rest if Russia leaves than what they have left is a fortified army ready to march they’re never gonna do it they might’ve done it before the west started showering them with arms but hey they’re all smart we’re all dumb
ROFL
No one really remembers the Second World War anymore. That is the problem. That is the reason no one is taking it all that seriously.
The catastrophic loss of life, the ruined families, the deprivation of all kinds as everything went to the war effort . . . the tears of joy and celebration when it was over, after the inconceivable horror of the possibility not winning . . .
I remember it. From older people mostly, but I remember VJ Day vividly.
And that was a “mere” conventional war.
People think it’s just a story on the TV news. Or an analysis in the New York Times. It’s not. It’s a nightmare to be avoided at almost any cost.
And something to make jokes about. I forgot that one.
“Less than two decades ago, U.S. President George W. Bush joined Putin for the May 9 celebrations in Moscow.”
Yes, despite the protestations of the Putin brigade to the contrary, the neocon-in-chief was actually friends with Putin.
👎
“Oh, the mad fools!”
Yes, that’s the standing policy, if we can attribute the attack to Russia. We would retaliate with a complete annihilation strike even if only one NATO member is hit with only one nuke.
Lol, the bomb shelters ain’t gonna help much when they come upstairs to a uninhabitable radioactive wasteland.
“It’s a nightmare to be avoided at almost any cost.”
Not at the cost of appeasing and preemptively surrendering to our biggest enemy who clearly has designs on the destruction of our allies. That’s an invitation to a World War, not an antidote to it.
Thanks! You are an honest broker so -—— I have heritage there as in half Ukraine via my mother (Jewish)
There’s appeasement, and there’s intelligently conducted peace talks. Two different things.
Well, “peace talks” is just weasel words for “negotiating how much Ukrainian land we will bribe Putin with to stop the invasion”, which is the same as appeasement.
“Maybe Hitler will stop if we just let him have the Sudetenland...”
And as soon as ours were launched, they’d launch an annihilation strike on Europe and the continental US.
Because of Ukraine?
“Because of Ukraine?”
No, that was not the question I was responding to. The question was what we would do in event of a single nuclear attack on Berlin, who is a NATO member.
“So you did steal Pootie Toot. How Russian of you!”
lol and thanks for the laughs. No Russkie in me, but I am half Ukie via my mother. Jewish, but my mother was very Slavic looking with blond hair and green eyes. There was lots of mixing in the old Ukraine via rapes and pogroms. And regular old fooling around. But Jewish communities never rejected these offspring and abortions were zero or minimal.
It is my understanding the Biden is retiring to the bunker sometime today.
You and a few others here should seek help for your Putin Derangement Syndrome.
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