Hi AC,

The parade was a fizzer. No parade of the immortals either. Meanwhile these poor fellows didn't fare so well against the Ukrainians with their lack of training:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcii2ICMW_8

I think the Russian army is smart using the old tanks. They are mobile artillery and will be useful defending if they are dug in. Meanwhile the Ukrainians continue to pick off Russian equipment and test strategies. I think that they are also trying to improve their drone capability to compensate for their lack of air support. They weren't able to do anything spectacular for victory day. Maybe they didn't want to divert attention from the parade?

F,

It looks like they only have one tank left. I watched the parade to the music of Benny Hill. What a joke. Most of their tanks are now scrap iron.

Hi SM,

Yes, it would be hilarious but for the unprovoked atrocities which rival that of the Nazis. The abomination would end if Putin ordered the Russian army out of Ukraine, and with the Russian forces as depleted as they are now Russia would be at zero risk of an invasion. That is the part of AC's narrative that makes no sense to me: Why would a nation fearful of rape and pillage by the hostile west destroy its army in its own act of rape and pillage? This suggests to me that Putin has no fear of Russia being invaded but very likely thinks that failure in Ukraine will be the end of him.

Hi AC,

Hopefully the Russian troops will run away when the Ukrainians attack, like they did south of Bakhmut, or at least surrender like this soldier did (note all his dead comrades).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-XHtOWxU4g

Well here's some Chechens holding the line and Ukrainians being blown up and eaten by dogs, if you like that kind of thing.
http://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/status/1656329976847663105

"I think the Russian army is smart using the old tanks. They are mobile artillery and will be useful defending if they are dug in. Meanwhile the Ukrainians continue to pick off Russian equipment and test strategies."

Aha, someone finally clued on to what the T55 and T62 tanks are actually for.
- They aren't running out of tanks, they just have different uses for them.
Meanwhile Ukraine needs a 2 million man army to take back the territory it's lost.
- And it's using 3 million dollar patriot interceptors to destroy 10K drones.

"I think that they are also trying to improve their drone capability to compensate for their lack of air support."
- It won't change anything.
"They weren't able to do anything spectacular for victory day. Maybe they didn't want to divert attention from the parade?"
- Russia's going to label Ukraine a state sponsor of terror for targeting non-combatants, and labeling Washington as a direct party to such incidents. Hitting Moscow with a drone, just hardened Russian resolve and plays into Putin's narrative.

"It looks like they only have one tank left. I watched the parade to the music of Benny Hill. What a joke. Most of their tanks are now scrap iron."

You really are an idiot.
So desperate for something to cling onto you advertise your stupidity.

It's a symbol of the 27 million Russians who died fighting the NAZI's in WWII, similar to the fight that is going on now, sponsored by the West.
(US lost 440K in WWII)
I bet none of you listened to Putin's speech on Victory Day right?
- So you wouldn't understand anything in any context.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71104

Meanwhile Ursula Van Der Leyen is in Kiev for a rebranded 'Europe Day'

EU DIVISIONS ARE GROWING - NATO IS DOOMED
http://www.youtube.com/live/VN4ALG1JQOY?feature=share

"Russia could be a great nation like them, but it chooses to be an impoverished terrorist state run by gangsters."
- It chooses not to kneel like all the other vassal states have and is the most sanctioned nation on the planet.

Sure much to be desired but this war has forced Russia to nation build and be more self-reliant.

"How were Germany, Japan and Italy destroyed by the West in ww2?"
- Lol, they weren't.
They were destroyed by the west in 2022 after playing lapdog to US neoconsevatives war plans against Russia after the US overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014.
Watch the video in my previous comment.

You really stepped in a turd with that one.
- I found it really quite amusing.