Can't have a victory parade without tanks. Or men. Or equipment. Or victory.
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Azagar_Omiras4 days ago
+1065
Tbf this is in celebration of victory in WW2 but the rest are all very solid points.
It's got to be humiliating being the second most powerful military in you own country at times, especially when (at least on paper) you were supposed to be the second most powerful military in the world.
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LordSigdis4 days ago
+366
True. And I know it's V in WW2 day, it was just amusing as Russia and Ukraine were part of the same entity during that conflict and now Russia is getting its ass whooped in what would be a civil war. So the WW2 Victory parade is amusing.
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Waymannj4 days ago
+326
Interesting factoid, more Ukrainians gave their lives in WWII than Russians (per capita).
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xSaRgED4 days ago
+219
Yeah, Ukraine’s contributions are like a third of the reason why Russia was able hold their own in WW2.
The others being US lend-lease policy, and massive waves of Zerg rushes.
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YourOverlords4 days ago
+36
Ukraine was a battlefield for most of the War. It got the worst end of the stick in the overall conflict.
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XennialBoomBoom4 days ago
+50
They must build more pylons.
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xSaRgED4 days ago
+63
That’s what lend lease was for. The US built the pylons.
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MrsPhyllisQuott4 days ago
+37
And spawned an Overlord.
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Kumimono4 days ago
+17
Historically accurate StarCraft fact. 🤔👍
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Skratt794 days ago
+5
*chef kiss*
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Valuable_Hunter16213 days ago
+2
can you elaborate on the pylons? i’m trying to look them up and am not finding anything
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xSaRgED3 days ago
+3
Sorry, it was a meme response to my “Zerg rush” joke.
It references a line from the video game [StarCraft](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-must-construct-additional-pylons).
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Zydian4884 days ago
+9
Zerg don't use pylons, silly.
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generateduser291283 days ago
+7
It's more meta than that. The US was protoss and built the pylons. After that they went for constant carrier pushes and occasional false flag operations with Dark Archons and mind control.
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kaisadilla_0x14 days ago
+14
tbh that's thanks to Russia: Russia would not let Russians die if they could have non-Russians die instead. Just like in this war, they prioritized sending people from other ethnicities first to die.
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Waymannj4 days ago
+22
Also NKVD insuring combatants didn't retreat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD
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Remarkable_Aside13814 days ago
+42
Ehh, “Enemy at the Gates” really fucked with the pop history perception of what blocking troops would do in reality. They were more akin to MP battalions that picked up deserters. The vast majority of men picked up by the NKVD were returned to their units
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MeansToAnEndThruFire4 days ago
+5
“Blocking formations”, eh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier\_troops
Them shits is counter to winning. Even if the force uses enemies as fodder or in a support position, it’s accrues too many negatives to ever be a “good” military tactic.
Dont make the enemies of your military a part of your military. It’ll only make you more likely to lose.
And it’s just outright a b**** ass move.
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Long_Pecker_13374 days ago
+8
Contrary to popular belief there were no men with machine guns shooting retreating forces in the back in SU.
The point of blocking units was to catch deserters and spies, which would be very hard to do from just behind the advancing forces. Blocking units were stationed at key railway hubs, on crossroads, in the forests around the front. You know, places where enemy spies and deserters might actually go to.
Deserters were also rarely shot. Once again, meat waves and complete disregard of human lives is another myth.
And just so you know my stance, SU was an incredibly shitty thing, just for other reasons.
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[deleted]4 days ago
+7
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Long_Pecker_13374 days ago
+9
I agree, that is a very trustworthy and precise source of information.
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discardthemold4 days ago
+10
And my grandfather says that didn't happen.
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lukin1872504 days ago
+4
You have to give a sizable amount of credit to soviet civilians. They literally took factories apart and moved them eastward.
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shiggythor4 days ago
+24
Not really surprising that one of the most developed regions of the USSR, one on the frontlines as well, had losses above the national average, or?
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Waymannj4 days ago
+12
Stalin's plan was to let ethnic Ukrainians deal with the initial wave in order to decimate the culture. Russians only got into gear when they plowed through what is now Ukraine.
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shiggythor4 days ago
+20
Source of that? Because from my History knowledge, Stalin did plan a lot of stuff to go differently in 1941, including certainly NOT, having to give up the unfinished defensive lines at the border, losing his new territories Poland, his armies to be encircled in Minsk and Ukraine, losing his core industrial centers around Smolensk, Kiew and the Donbas, and desperately moving those factories east of the Urals.
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naggert4 days ago
+17
Kinda like how Russia is sacrificing all their minorities and impure people from the far east now.
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IguapoSanchez4 days ago
+18
Btw fun factlet, a lot of people misuse the word factoid which has the original meaning - a false statement presented as fact (for example almost anything Trump or Putin say). Now so many people misuse the term it that it has developed the colloquial meaning for "trivial fact" which is what I and most here probably assume you mean.
The word people should use is factlet to not have the ambiguity.
That said I don't think your factlet is trivial so just a fun fact.
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Waymannj4 days ago
+4
I guess the word has evolved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
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zaevilbunny384 days ago
+18
It is supposed to be a show of strength, masked as a WW2 celebration. It would be similar if the US claimed Memorial Day was just to celebrate the Civil War, instead of veterans of all conflicts.
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noir_lord4 days ago
+64
> (at least on paper)
That was a projection though, anyone paying attention didn't really think that Russia was the 2nd most powerful military in the world though I'll admit that somehow they were worse than even the most pessimistic projections on their capability
The second most powerful military in the world has been China for a while both on the amount of equipment they have (including their navy which has grown massively) *and* perhaps more importantly their sheer industrial muscle, in a true all out war assuming it didn't go nuclear the ability to replace losses and expand fast is what matters.
Turns out Russia's military was a literal Potemkin Village.
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steavor4 days ago
+19
> That was a projection though, anyone paying attention didn't really think that Russia was the 2nd most powerful military in the world
Depends on the metric used. Russia would be #1 by number of active nuclear warheads, and given how **every** discussion of support for Ukraine was accompanied by concerned "but what if Putin nukes us for helping Ukraine?" I'd argue that they've offset their shortcomings in soldiers, strategy, tactics, materiel, ... quite a bit.
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iismitch554 days ago
+4
Yeah but no one measures conventional military strength by number of nuclear warheads.
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Telen4 days ago
+2
Plus their practically limitless manpower and force generation capacity.
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Effective_Guitar_2064 days ago
+24
Always remember, Russia was effectively on the Nazi's side (diciding up Poland between themselves) until 1941, when Hitler decided to invade Russia. Also, Russia relied on massive amounts of US and British aid and equipment. And Germany was fighting the Allies on the west at the same time as Russia fought on the east. So this "great victory", was absolutely reliant on the Western Allies.
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khrak4 days ago
+5
The WW2 tanks and equipment went to Ukraine too.
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__Osiris__3 days ago
+3
Which is annoying since they started it by invading Poland.
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[deleted]4 days ago
+15
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Icy_Chemical_80453 days ago
+6
There are a few islands off the Chinese coast that would disagree with you
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Kichigai4 days ago
+12
>China, meanwhile, is content to make things and get rich.
I dunno, man. I think there are some fishing vessels in the South China Sea who would dispute the “content” part.
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ToolTimeT4 days ago
+2
I think he just meant its ironic that they are in a stalemate and can't attain victory over a small country while celebrating a massive victory over formidable army and foe.
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beyd14 days ago
+5
Ehhhhh I think China was always number 2. But yeah they absolutely showed themselves to be a paper tiger.
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SpaceSlothMafia4 days ago
+28
Or so utterly terrified of a drone attack but you absolutely can't lose face!
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Important-Agent25844 days ago
+8
Russia ended up exchanging 1000 Ukrainian prisoners for a short term cease fire at the parade.
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Red_black_flag_074 days ago
+5
Next year, the Russian military parade will be without militarys.
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rembakas4 days ago
+2
No victory in sight xD
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aztec00003 days ago
+2
You can absoluteiy celebrate defeat too like a divorce party. but only for 45 minutes as you are shit scared your permit may not be honored despite ransoming pows. But you can party for days if you invite your opponent instead of 3 friends. And then you still blame NATO for your victory parade snafu.
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Moeen_Ali4 days ago
+1869
Having to go to Trump to get a 'no attack' guarantee from a country you invaded four years into a three day war so you can go outside for 45 minutes to see a parade passing your own house. Let me hear what you have to say, bots.
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Tjonke4 days ago
+545
12 years*
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Ossius4 days ago
+260
This, there was fighting for 8 years in the East before the full scale invasion attempt on Kyiv.
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ccjmk4 days ago
+94
which is doubly sad because if the west had provided support back then, we wouldn't be here.. but of course noone expected the things that came after.. hopefully this will never repeat again
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TheLurkerSpeaks4 days ago
+95
Certain people expected it. In 2012 during the presidential campaign Mitt Romney cited Russia (instead of Al-Qaeda) as being the USA's biggest geopolitical foe and was laughed out of the room for it. Obama failed to realize it, too, ignoring it at our peril.
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Ossius4 days ago
+59
I don't think Obama failed to realize it, I think there was a big effort by US and Europe to bring Russia into the fold and find an alternative to the coming conflict. It didn't work, but I don't think it was an oversight or incompetence so much as just hopeful optimism of the western world that globalism trade would fix Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset
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Myredditsirname4 days ago
+33
During Obamas first term, Russia invaded several countries (such as Georgia).
Obama was caught on a hot mic asking the Russians to slow down during the 2012 election to give Obama "space." Medvedev agreed and during the campaign the invasions stopped, Obama used the pause to make fun of Romney for saying Russia was a geopolitical threat - "the 1980s are calling and asking for their foreign policy back".
12 months after Obama started his 2nd term, Russia invaded Ukraine to steal Crimea and US did basically nothing.
If Obama took the risk of Russian aggression seriously that's a weird way of implementing it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hot-mic-moment-obama-overheard-telling-medvedev-he-needs-space-flna554348
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derecho134 days ago
+15
The article only discusses that he asked the Russian president to give space on missile defense. Your premise isn't supported by the article.
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_jump_yossarian4 days ago
+38
> (such as Georgia).
Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 ... months before Obama won the election.
> Obama used the pause to make fun of Romney for saying Russia was a geopolitical threat
No, he made fun of Romney for saying that Russia was THE geopolitical threat. It's China and it was China in 2012.
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Myredditsirname4 days ago
+6
Russia started to invade Georgia in 2008. They continued to push the border through around 2012. Saying the war was over before Obama took office is like saying the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine was over before Trump took office.
Maybe China was a reasonable alternative choice, but Obama didn't say that, instead claiming that Middle Eastern Terror Organizations were the biggest threat. He later said, "When you were asked, 'What's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America,' you said Russia. Not al Qaeda; you said Russia".
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_jump_yossarian4 days ago
+12
> Saying the war was over before Obama took office
Where did I say it was over. I corrected the erroneous comment that they invaded during the Obama administration. They began their invasion in 2008.
> Maybe China was a reasonable alternative choice, but Obama didn't say that, instead claiming that Middle Eastern Terror Organizations were the biggest threat.
Correct but Russia hasn't been the biggest geopolitical threat to the US in decades. They are A threat but not THE BIGGEST threat.
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Harnellas4 days ago
+4
The US heavily sanctioned them in 2012, and it seemed to be a major economic hurdle for them. They seemed to be taking it pretty seriously.
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koshgeo4 days ago
+9
"Basically nothing", but Russia did get kicked out of the G8, which is why it is the G7 now. The problem was, Russia accepted the economic hit and simply pumped more oil and gas to keep themselves financially afloat.
I agree with your premise that not enough was done, but I think that comes with hindsight. I think people then were expecting Russia to be more rational about the economic costs of their imperial ambitions and see there were better ways to proceed than invading its neighbors.
It was a mistake to underestimate how irrational and self-destructive Russia and Putin would be. People were constantly hoping for the best ("There's no way Putin would be *that* dumb"), when they should have been assuming the worst.
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eggnogui4 days ago
+4
That last paragraph is why I don't put too much stock on predictions against China attacking Taiwan, US attacking Greenland or Iran or Canada or Cubs or whatever else the orange moron threatened.
You never know.
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alswell994 days ago
+3
At millions of Ukrainian and Russians peril. If anything, it weakens Russia for the US by using Ukrainians as human shields.
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_jump_yossarian4 days ago
+4
Russia still isn't the US's biggest geo-political foe ... it's China. Russia is a regional problem for Europe whereas China poses issues for the US in the western hemisphere, Africa, and of course Asia.
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ryhaltswhiskey4 days ago
+12
>Russia is a regional problem for Europe
Did you forget about Russia sending out propaganda in favor of trump?
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DiabloTable9923 days ago
+4
China is the colleague 30 years younger than you that will be promoted into your job role when you retire. They're just the next person in line, not a direct threat to the USA. No empire lasts forever.
Russia is the one that has brought ruin to the USA in the last 10 years, and it was entirely preventable. China is not the reason why American gasoline prices are rising to 4.50$ per gallon.
It was classic hubris from the likes of Obama to prioritise trying to prevent the inevitable rather than tackling realistic threats.
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Hail-Hydrate3 days ago
+5
The West *did* provide support back then, not as much as after the full-scale invasion but it was provided, primarily in the form of training, logistical and intelligence support. That support allowed Ukraine to bolster their military from a force in the region of 60,000 troops to well over a million. It also educated the Ukrainian military in how to operate to NATO standard (ie, allowing officers to function independently within their given orders rather than the old Soviet method of "follow your orders to the letter").
You have to remember, prior to the Ukrainian revolution and Zelensky taking office, Ukraine had a very pro-russian government. It would have been ludicrous to suggest giving the Ukrainians modern NATO hardware in 2014. Unfortunately Ukraine suffered from egregious corruption in it's government and military prior to Zelensky, that isn't a perception that goes away overnight, especially when it comes to multi-million dollar weapons systems.
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tappertock4 days ago
+3
The AFU wasn't much of a fighting force back in 2014, you can thank the Obama administration for preparing them to be the shining stars they are today.
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Vano_Kayaba4 days ago
+221
All that, while claiming to fight against the whole NATO
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SometimesMoody4 days ago
+68
And the irony of celebrating winning af war, helping to liberate Europe, while at the same time claiming you are currently fighting the same people you helped liberate, who formed an alliance to prevent it happening again. If that doesn’t tell you that you are in the wrong, I don’t know what will.
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Rynewulf4 days ago
+30
They just unironically claim they are liberating Ukraine from Nazis again. The people that believe the propaganda are loud, and everyone else is keeping their head down
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ucantekne344 days ago
+25
> liberate Europe
they didn't liberate them, they grabbed land + forced their imperialism via puppet states with a flavour of 20cc dogma
don't forget that even at the beginning they attacked poland with nazis to grab land
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ineverknewmyfather4 days ago
+16
Trump didn’t do shit. Putin just used his mouthpiece to communicate a decision he already made.
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Feuertotem4 days ago
+313
Let's take this moment to laugh at Russia. We can go back to other feelings in 45 minutes.
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noir_lord4 days ago
+85
I've been laughing at Russia since 2014, You can laugh at their ineptness without denying the sheer barbarity of what they are doing (actually longer than 2014, Russia (and the soviets before them and the Tsar's before that) have been basket cases for a long time).
Also when your country is a sucking void of evil it helps Ukraine (and the rest of us) that they are so bad it becomes funny.
To quote that Ukrainian soldier from a while back.
> "We're very lucky they're so f****** stupid"
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Unique-Ladder-19904 days ago
+17
now that sums up the state of Russia's army very nicely
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SPQR-Tightanus4 days ago
+445
This year Russians had no tanks on their parade, only troops and widows.
Soon they will only have widows.
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maker-sense4 days ago
+48
They had one T-34, so one tank from 80 years ago.
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super__hoser3 days ago
+5
Not this year. They had 1 post WWII T-34 in 2023 and 2024. This year had 0 vehicles.
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pongomanswe4 days ago
+64
I don’t care too much about them either to be honest.
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Sage20504 days ago
+14
Conscripts and widows are just as much victims of the oligarchy
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Lalichi4 days ago
+66
The Russians invading Ukraine aren't conscripts, they are doing it for the huge signup bonus.
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Ashamed-Smell70534 days ago
+39
Except pretty much all russian invaders in Ukraine are volunteers
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StrangeCharmVote4 days ago
+12
On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand, conscripts should absolutely kill their superiors as quickly as possible.
There's only so much of that a military can afford before they decide conscripts are too dangerous to have around.
---
Many regular people like me, would die if they were conscripted.
Soldiers have a choice.
If conscripts make it their 1# mission to kill their superiors. They would save the lives of more of their fellow countrymen than they ever could by being forced to pretend they are a soldier.
I don't care if you are young, old, male, female, or literally anything else... If you **support conscription**. You personally should always be sent to the front lines first. And you should be forced to stay there until the conflict ends.
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BocciaChoc4 days ago
+2
and in a years time how many who took part in that will be dead i wonder.
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gammalsvenska3 days ago
+2
And windows, for those who point that out.
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Captain__Campion4 days ago
+562
The President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decree didn’t allow for longer
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[deleted]4 days ago
+55
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i_am_my_brain4 days ago
+12
Putin was too busy holding all the uno cards
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Coscommon884 days ago
+112
The only Volodymyr whose decisions matter in the region.
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disregard_karma4 days ago
+27
Honestly super nice of Zelensky to let them have their party. Real bro move.
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OneNormalBloke4 days ago
+616
Still 45 minutes too long.
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kaisadilla_0x14 days ago
+271
Nah, that was the perfect length, because it was humiliating. Russia isn't Tajikistan, it's supposed to be a world superpower and they want very hard to believe they are. Imagine if the US held a military parade and they only brought a few dozen vehicles and a bunch of videos.
The message is even worse than if they cancelled the parade altogether. If they cancelled it, they could sell it as "we are being extremely cautious and will not risk a minuscule chance of a terror strike". What they did, however, is just to pretend they are as strong as ever while everyone can see they have nothing to show.
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Ivanow4 days ago
+75
> Imagine if the US held a military parade
Didn't they have one last year? And it looked absolutely pathetic, with just some dudes waddling around, and advertisement for some crypto startup that "sponsored" it, all over...
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Derelictcairn4 days ago
+38
"Sponsored by coinbase", would be genuinely hilarious if it wasn't so f****** depressing to see how far Americas fallen.
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Paizzu3 days ago
+14
I handled some purchasing orders through the GSA when I was active duty and had to spend a fair amount of time ensuring that the contracts never showed favoritism to a specific private company.
Something like a "no bid" single-source contract required a substantial amount of paperwork to justify bypassing the appropriate process.
Apparently every rule was thrown out the window during the parade since some trash crypto shitcoin was allowed to "sponsor" a public military event. They might as well have written a sign that says the Army directly "endorses" Trump's crypto scams.
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RedditLeagueAccount3 days ago
+6
Yup. Trump absolutely held a military parade and no one showed up so they were doing their best to suppress the news. Probably part of the reason "noble peace prize" Trump has started using the military more blatantly. He has an inherit need to show off with no actual skills. He can't show off laws/justice. He can't show off economy. He can't show off family. He cannot show off science. The only thing he has left is the military.
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tallanvor4 days ago
+108
Any military parade in the US is strange because we don't do them. Aside from Dump's pecker waving event in 2025, the last real one was in 1991.
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zmbjebus4 days ago
+10
Wow Tajikistan over here catching strays.
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bigorangemachine4 days ago
+56
If you seen the other ones its usually driving a general around in a car while the generals salute everyone... thats usually like 30mins lol
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PloppyTheSpaceship4 days ago
+18
The other 15 minutes is because it usually starts a bit late. And the general's drunk.
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likamuka4 days ago
+5
Nothing beats Trump's squeaky f****** rattling tanks rolling and then seeing him pathetically sitting there pretending to be his daddy Putin.
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alswell994 days ago
+7
45 minutes window for low altitude drone swarms to make upper class moscovites shake in their name brand boots.
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bjarkov4 days ago
+7
Honestly, the fact that Ukraine OK'ed a short cease fire to 'let them have their parade', that there is so limited hardware to show off, that the number of foreign emissaries is at an all-time low and that the parade was so brief is all telling the tale much clearer than a cancelled parade would
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steve_ample4 days ago
+83
Might as well. No tanks is one thing, but not enough soldiers goose stepping in a parade to fill the time is another.
Did they do a Shahed flyover, at least?
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pyeeater4 days ago
+23
They flew a few frogfoots mixed in with some ms flightsim footage.
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ours4 days ago
+10
They couldn't spring for ArmA?
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Flyingtower24 days ago
+14
Even the Russian government won’t pay for DCS modules anymore.
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Substantial_Milk81704 days ago
+66
It turns out a military parade goes by a lot faster when you only have one vintage museum tank left to drive across the square.
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Portbragger24 days ago
+21
according to ukr. defense ministry russia loses btwn 5-15 tanks daily when you look at those graphic overviews with all types of vehicles and aircraft.
so they still seem to have enough but they dont use any for the parade no more
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hkohne3 days ago
+4
Recent weeks have been more like 2 tanks a day, with an insane amount of drones getting shot out of the sky
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chappandi_madarchod4 days ago
+150
Ukraine will prevail.
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Aedeus3 days ago
+13
Every day that they still exist is a win.
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9uYx3QemUHKy4 days ago
+25
Anyone staying longer than an hour is tempting fate
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lhc9874 days ago
+24
A particularly large bird must have registered as a drone on their radar.
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WetFishStink4 days ago
+40
Because their army is lying dead in Ukrainian fields.
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Grombrindal183 days ago
+3
Well that’s another WWII throwback.
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_jump_yossarian4 days ago
+37
Parade could have been an email.
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irealllylovepenguins4 days ago
+85
Slava Ukraini
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OkInitial10254 days ago
+14
What stood out was how afraid everyone looked. Continuous surreptitious glances at the sky, wondering when the Ukrainian sanctions would be arriving.
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uqubar3 days ago
+2
It seemed like most of the troops marching by didn’t have guns. The band was good though.
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tandoori_taco_cat4 days ago
+13
Corruption destroys countries.
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urmumlol94 days ago
+12
A military parade in the capital getting interrupted by drone strikes from a nation with a weaker military that they‘re “not at war with” would be a much worse look than one cut short after 45 minutes.
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hkohne3 days ago
+8
Or as someone on /ukraine said, Ukraine should've still sent attack drones to fly overhead, not to attack, but instead spew yellow & blue smoke
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hey-coffee-eyes4 days ago
+13
45 minute special military parade
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Amazing_Athlete_22654 days ago
+44
I hope Putin shits himself on live TV, then falls back in it.
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uberfission4 days ago
+7
Not that anybody would ever notice, he's got all of them on the other side of that long ass table.
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Barbarella_394 days ago
+29
Imagine if Putin had invested the money from his war into his country. Who still supports him in Russia? I know a lot of young educated Russians have left.
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uqubar3 days ago
+3
Seriously, if they had put it towards education.
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ExtentAggravating7334 days ago
+9
They went from ~30 countries sending troops to the parade in 2010 to now... this.
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CattlePutrid20104 days ago
+9
It was very good of the Ukrainians to give Putin permission to hold his parade and to promise not to attack while it was on. And yet still they had to rush through it and get back indoors in case a nasty drone came looking or them.
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Somo_994 days ago
+9
The parade could've been an email
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Golemfrost4 days ago
+9
I was watching it on YouTube and was shocked by the amount of Russians in chat literally laughing at Ukraine and calling them weak etc for not attacking the parade.
There was a whole ceasefire deal so that you could have your little parade.
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suicidemachine4 days ago
+15
Watching the videos from the parade and the interviews with old ladies holding pictures of their husbands and sons makes me think that today's Russia must be some kind of a crazy experiment. It's like everyone there realizes that it is a farce and tries to play along. It is peak of human immorality, and a good example of a place where any semblance of morals are just gone.
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ThugClassROU4 days ago
+6
And Trump admires it.
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Frydendahl3 days ago
+3
Go watch HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis - it dives directly into this feeling of a society that's over, but everyone tries to pretend it isn't.
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themith20194 days ago
+17
Did Ukraine do a flyby to help them celebrate?
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apost8n84 days ago
+17
I love that Zelenskyy gave them a safe space and time to allow for their silly little parade.
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Kaskelontti4 days ago
+8
Did they have a mule and a tractor?
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Not_a_cultmember4 days ago
+7
I doubt puti was watching from a window, 😂
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Pure_Grapefruit96454 days ago
+6
Any North Koreans in the march?
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ThugClassROU4 days ago
+4
Yep. With silver assault rifles as well.
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VolumeAcademic69624 days ago
+6
Like others, I dislike war. However, Zelenskyy is one bad ass. I wish my coworkers would have 1/100 of his bravery. Putin, on the other hand has seen his time as a leader.
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WafflePartyOrgy4 days ago
+5
Instead of an embarrassingly short Victory Day Parade it would be a lot more appropriate for Russia to start recognizing their incredibly ill-conceived invasion with a Longest Quagmire Parade.
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AdeptVeterinarian5414 days ago
+6
After 45 minutes they couldn't afford the electricity.
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IsItCakeOrWhat4 days ago
+11
Gotta go fast, that ceasefire ain't gonna hold
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mfrunyan4 days ago
+11
Hard to have a parade when all of your assets are flamed out in Ukraine.
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S-Tier_Commenter4 days ago
+2
And if they're not, they've got those Orkish turtle modifications. Not parade worthy.
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Long_Bit83284 days ago
+5
Considering a 3 day SMO takes years. It is an amazingly short amount of time. Not as short as the Kremlin Gremlin. But, still short none the less.
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jugalator4 days ago
+7
That can't have been a joyful experience for Putin with everything that's been said lately about his mounting paranoia. Probably nervous the entire time.
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mrvitz4 days ago
+4
good! :)
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ItzDinny4 days ago
+5
scared of Ukranian drones
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Texas12thMan4 days ago
+4
Had to use North Korean soldiers as fillers and videos of battle since they don’t have any hardware.
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AlliedR24 days ago
+5
Seems they are short on victory.
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SinsOfTheAether4 days ago
+6
Can someone find the video and set it to the benny hill theme?
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I-seddit3 days ago
+5
The time being 45 minutes, instead of 47, or 50, or even the average time of an hour...
Is NOT the big deal. It's the reduction of key attendees and the lack of anything to "show off". Frankly, having the North Korean section was even more pathetic for a Russian audience.
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Front_Promise_59914 days ago
+9
And most time of the parade they watched video about their tech :DDDDD
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ReadingTheRealms4 days ago
+4
Weakness
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tupe124 days ago
+3
I know times are rough, but ive seen youtube essays longer then this
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Gunmars4 days ago
+4
Could have gotten some sick mod footage from Arma 3. Slap some shitty film grain on it and roll it out as actual combat footage, more impressive than what happened and probably less expensive.
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rPoliticsModsBlowMe4 days ago
+4
No creaky tanks, sad
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Comrade_Kitten4 days ago
+5
And out of that, only 10~ minutes was actually "a parade" (albeit without any military vehicles at all), the rest was just speeches, formalities and videos.. lol
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alexfi-re4 days ago
+4
Is potato
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Pauly__Walnuts4 days ago
+5
‘cause they suck!
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stjeffobispo4 days ago
+4
Tanks and missiles all used up … no parade
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AloneChapter3 days ago
+4
That’s called fear. Fear of drones which would simply fly in then out just to prove the failure of pootin.
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wtfbenlol3 days ago
+5
That's what happens when you invade and start a war and get all your tanks blown up
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PurpleSailor3 days ago
+5
Too bad Ukraine didn't join in on the festivities, I was really hoping for that.
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dogwoodcat3 days ago
+2
If they did, Russia would take that as permission to never adhere to another ceasefire.
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PurpleSailor3 days ago
+2
You mean you would actually take Russia at their word? Like when they promised they weren't really going to invade Ukraine and then they did?
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dogwoodcat3 days ago
+2
Oh, not in the least, but so far they've at least acted like they've tried, until they didn't.
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TerrorNova493 days ago
+4
Had to fit it into the time s*** Ukraine gave for not attacking Red Square
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KSaburof4 days ago
+7
Shortest and dumbest :) Well, since the most dumb people from kremlin attended it - it fits imho
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No_Conversation_93254 days ago
+9
Those military parades have such an exhibitionism kink vibe!
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Telzey4 days ago
+6
The permission slip was for a 45min parade… lol
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oopsallhuckleberries4 days ago
+3
Hometown of 1000 people has a longer memorial day parade, wtf.
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dasookwat4 days ago
+3
"US President Donald Trump [said](https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/trump-announces-three-day-ceasefire-and-pow-exchange-between-russia-and-ukraine-18620) on May 8 that Russia and Ukraine would observe a three-day ceasefire on May 9, 10, and 11 and conduct a “1000-for-1000” prisoner exchange" What has Trump to do with this? He now believes he's also the president of Russia and Ukraine? Or has his egomania moved beyond those little things, and he's just the leader of the entire world?
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Delbert3US3 days ago
+2
"Strongest Leader" of the entire world, in his mind.
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Gxgear3 days ago
+3
Probably should have marched in single file.
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VideoGenie3 days ago
+3
moscow got hit with a weapon worse than missiles and drones - paranoia
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macross19843 days ago
+3
Putin's acknowledgement to the world that Russia is no longer world power of the past.
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Sure_Ad5363 days ago
+3
Imagine you’re a Ukrainian spy and you have to try to not burst out laughing and blow your cover. Gotta be their toughest assignment yet.
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HotOuse3 days ago
+3
Maybe everyone in the country wasn't aware what day it was?
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bigorangemachine4 days ago
+7
now they gotta give up 1000 prisoners of war lol.... sounds like Ukraine made an Artful Deal...
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RewindUniverseMaybe4 days ago
+5
Ah, he's scared. Old, frail, and scared. Anyway, the sun is f****** shining deluxe over here, Imma go grab a beer and get som D vitamin.
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Creative-Routine48744 days ago
+6
A looser parade 👍🏻
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Jonesdeclectice4 days ago
+15
Seems like it got tighter to me…
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NecessaryStatus20484 days ago
+5
I've been racking my brain about this thing for a long time. Putin is a person that intimately understands how to project a desired image. He also understands how to keep his ass away from the flames. So, now with the communist party saying they'd rather NOT have a f****** Russian revolution, and him admitting publicly that the economy is shit, I find that it doesn't make sense for him to allow this parade. A friend of mine summarized it as "you're damned if you do, damned if you don't" But at this point, I kind of feel like it would be better to find some excuse to blame it on the Ukranians rather than to go ahead with a parade that shows your weakness.
Make no mistake, this parade was a show of weakness for Putin. This is going to embolden his favorite "warhawks" that he uses to express the ideals that he himself doesn't want to be associated with. We already had the blogger that got sent to a mental asylum, and then the communist party leader. Meanwhile, the moderate fucks in Moscow are feeling the burn as their lives are made more difficult with no internet available. I hate to say this, but Russia's culture seems to need that boot on their necks, constantly keeping them just scrambling for bare necessities. Because the second you give them more, they inevitably go to war. If you don't believe me, read some history.
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S-Tier_Commenter4 days ago
+6
You gotta understand that victory day is the most important day in Russian society. Cancelling the parade is like out of the question.
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OkInitial10254 days ago
+2
What stood out was how afraid everyone looked. Continuous surreptitious glances at the sky, wondering when the Ukrainian sanctions would be arriving.
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Substantial_Row_71084 days ago
+2
If you’re skerd, say you’re skerd.
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International_Bed2764 days ago
+2
кати та вбивці
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engineeringsquirrel3 days ago
+2
Yeah, it was a fantastic idea to group your military assets in a known location where the enemy can easily hit them.
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smilbandit3 days ago
+2
it wasn't a parade as much as a jog in costume.
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Brickzarina3 days ago
+2
Hehehehehe
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Shadowlance233 days ago
+2
It's ok, Putin. Happens to a lot of guys as they get older.
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