It's hard to miss the tanks -- or the rhetoric -- as Russia prepares for Victory Day

[Nevilledog]

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Marc Bennetts
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My report on the build-up to Victory Day in Moscow, escalating rhetoric & fear. “Do you really expect me to stand here and talk to you about what I think?” said a woman dressed all in black, as the tanks rolled off into the Moscow night.
"Seriously?”

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It’s hard to miss the tanks — or the rhetoric — as Russia prepares for Victory Day
You could feel the rumble of the tanks before you saw them. It was almost midnight in Moscow as a long convoy of military hardware rolled through the centre of
1:41 PM · Apr 23, 2022

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-s-hard-to-miss-the-tanks-or-the-rhetoric-as-russia-prepares-for-victory-day-fcpqvkj72


You could feel the rumble of the tanks before you saw them. It was almost midnight in Moscow as a long convoy of military hardware rolled through the centre of the city, across Tverskaya Street, a short distance from the Kremlin, and past a bronze statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle.

With just over two weeks until President Putin oversees a huge Victory Day military parade in Red Square, Russia’s armed forces are staging night-time rehearsals. This week dozens of armoured vehicles, Buk missile launchers and self-propelled artillery pieces moved across the Russian capital as police locked down central streets and small crowds of onlookers gathered along the miles-long route.

Near Moscow, fighter jets have been practising flyovers in the shape of a gigantic Z — the symbol of what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.

An Ilyushin Il-80 aircraft, known as the “doomsday plane”, is also set to fly over the city during the May 9 parade. The gigantic plane, which can fly for several days without refuelling, is designed to be used as an airborne command centre during a nuclear war. Putin this week hailed the successful test launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the Sarmat, which he claimed could overcome any missile defence system in the world.

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[Achilleaze]

1. Big Bro is Eternally Victorious

Led by Bowtie Karlson, the KGOP Republican Proles gather to adore his MANLINESS.

[dem4decades]

2. Trump loves a military parade, Putin should invite him. If Putin offered him a nice uniform with

lots of ribbons and medals, he'd probably go.

[Aristus]

3. Sorry to be the Tank Police, but it's in my blood:

Pictured are not tanks, but self-propelled artillery.

Self-propelled artillery pieces almost always have larger guns and a larger superstructure than tanks.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

5. "But, Officer...it had treads and a big gun!"

Thinner armor too, I believe, as they’re not intended to engage other armor in combat, but to maneuver in the rear, hitting enemy positions at longer range than a tanks weaponry. Or, of course in (r)ussia’s case, hitting civilian men women and children.

[Aristus]

12. Exactly.

On all counts...

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. Sorry russkies...YOU'RE the nazis now.

[FakeNoose]

6. Every tank that's parading in Moscow, is not attacking in Ukraine

So let him have his stupid parade, I don't give a rat's ass.

Remember how Chump wanted to have his military parades EVERY 4th of July? Now we know where he got that idea.

Little pricks have to have big parades.

[tanyev]

9. +1

[pecosbob]

7. Palace Guard and Toy Soldiers

[Torchlight]

8. Looks like Wile E. Coyote placed another big order to the Acme Company.

I'm beginning to think if Zelenskyy paints a cartoon tunnel on the south coast, Putin (super-genius) will roll his armor right through it, over the cliff and into the Black Sea.

[OnDoutside]

10. Victory Day would be a good time for Ukraine to hit Russia with

a spectacular.....it would spoil the day for Vlad.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

11. Well of course they are going to declare victory no matter what. The Iron Curtain has slammed down

No one will question, or it's off to the gulag for you