well that's certainly a reply to moscow warning diplomats to leave kyiv.
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Haru1st5 days ago
+72
I thought Russia already did that at the start of the war.
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canspop5 days ago
+288
Top level trolling, regardless of Ukraine's actions. There's gonna be some nervous people in red square tomorrow.
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clamorous_owle5 days ago
+115
Zelenskyy should post a past photo of Putin watching a parade from Lenin's tomb with the caption: "Many Russians have unexpectedly fallen from great heights over the past four years."
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fnot5 days ago
+29
Will Putin even show face? Maybe from behind a thick glass barrier..
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r20025 days ago
+39
He'll probably send a look alike.
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MasterBot984 days ago
+1
His balls are gonna implode into two little black holes which will swallow the Earth 😞
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Informalwizards5 days ago
+15
I doubt it. He barely lets anyone seem him since the drone strikes have been creeping closer.
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NABAKLAB5 days ago
+7
even in the previous years he wasn't. they show the parade, switch to a pre-recorded Putin, move onto parade
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Littman-Express5 days ago
+16
I hope they raze it
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EagleBigMac5 days ago
+7
It would be funny to see red square burn.
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NestroyAM5 days ago
+4
It‘s also just economic pressure since if they want to hold the parade, they’ll have to spend a ton of money on it and if they don’t, it’ll be quite the hit to their morale and undermine their propagandists spouting how well it is going.
Win/win, really.
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bappestinian5 days ago
+527
Looking forward to watching the parade from the viewfinder of an Ukrainian drone.
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azriel_odin5 days ago
+129
It's just a headshot of Putin.
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Haru1st5 days ago
+83
Putin’s double\*
The real one doesn’t have the balls to be there in person.
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tanaephis774005 days ago
+16
He's so terrified right now, his body doubles have body doubles.
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Jollydude1015 days ago
+1
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Harnellas5 days ago
+20
Probably a better view than down on the ground, harder to tell that all the tanks are made out of paper mache.
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Shadow6475 days ago
+17
Thermal imaging can tell those apart very well
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Trollensky175 days ago
+2
They have no tanks this time lol, just dudes walking
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Harnellas5 days ago
+2
Hence the paper mache.
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AlayaUchenaya5 days ago
+7
I'm looking forward to it as a young russian male in hope of some good changes
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GoodDayToPlayTheGame4 days ago
+1
Ukraine signed a decree to not attack the parade afaik. If they are going to uphold it, I don't know.
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Birdman9155 days ago
+78
Funny thing is, even if he does nothing, it will still ruin Putin's day.
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Spartan-4635 days ago
+170
Would be a great opportunity for some PSYOPs, drop some leaflets on the other major cities telling the residence that their dear leader has deemed his parade more important than their lives and that these could have been bombs but we don't kill civilians.
Then blow the shit out of all the military hardware, defence industry and ports
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im_dead_sirius5 days ago
+69
Drones dropping yellow and blue paintballs would do the trick.
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send420nudes5 days ago
+27
Way more expensive than leaflets when done in big numbers
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justmisspellit5 days ago
+22
Split the difference, make them yellow and blue leaflets
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sloguepoke5 days ago
+2
Probably cheaper than explosives? Idk
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Technical-Motor35465 days ago
+50
Steve Seagull just being like "aw man I'd love to be at that parade but I just cant. You understand." Then he puts it in the mail because Russia has no Internet and Vladimir Vladimirobich doesn't use computers.
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Ok_Literature69534 days ago
+2
Do not besmirch Steve 'n' Seagulls! They actually have talent.
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alex81555 days ago
+122
trump is one of russias friends..
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clamorous_owle5 days ago
+98
His bone spur may prevent him from attending this year's parade.
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Anonmasterrace78985 days ago
+34
He’ll send everyone’s beloved couch f***** in his stead i’m sure.
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Zealousideal-Toe19115 days ago
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"To biographer Michael D’Antonio, Trump went further still, arguing in 2015 that he’d been the best athlete in every sport at the New York Military Academy. He added that he’d decided against a baseball career because “in those days you couldn’t even make any money being a great baseball player.”
At this point, the claims were all Trump’s. But about a month after Trump announced he was running for president in the summer of 2015, the NYMA coach that Trump mentioned in his tweet, Theodore Dobias, chimed in. Dobias told the Daily Mail that Trump was scouted by the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, and repeated to Rolling Stone that the Phillies had been interested. “He was quite the athlete,” Dobias said, going on to praise the future president’s cleanliness and his ability to get along with everyone."
https://slate.com/culture/2020/05/donald-trump-baseball-high-school-nyma.html
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howdoyouchose5 days ago
+14
My oh my, even while being glazed he sounds like a d*****.
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Affectionate_Bee64345 days ago
+10
No US diplomat is attending the parade, are they?
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DeeSnarl5 days ago
+37
I want to say of course not, but I’ll go with not that I’m aware of.
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asdhjasdhlkjashdhgf5 days ago
+5
took my copium pills, and reads like the start of a good joke: imagine trump, macron & starmer attending Zelenskyy on 9th May in Kyiv just for an photo op congratulating soviet union. Putler foaming.
guess should have taken the other pills. /s
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DummyDumDragon5 days ago
+3
Are they considered a friend when they're your b****?
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spanksthemonkey5 days ago
+27
Hey I like you kid. I suggest you get sick tonight and don't go to school tomorrow.
Would be hilarious if Ukraine makes everyone so afraid that nobody attends. Then they don't strike the parade anyway.
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qwertyqyle5 days ago
+9
Certainly, they will have tons of jammers blocking anything of coming within a few miles. Right?
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devi835 days ago
+21
jammers don't block onboard neural nets
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qwertyqyle5 days ago
+5
Umm, can you explain that like I am 5?
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devi835 days ago
+31
The jammer stops radio signals, GPS, that kind of stuff, because those are from an outside source, and so they can over power those signals with their own signals.
An onboard neural net is different, because it doesn't need outside signals to fly, it uses its own AI trained on navigation and target acquisition, and all that exists inside the drone. So there is nothing to jam.
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qwertyqyle5 days ago
+6
Like a set-and-forget type of thing?
Isn't there like an electronics jammer though, that just fries the circuits, making it fall out of the sky?
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Derrickful5 days ago
+18
So fry everything in Moscow to drop a drone?
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qwertyqyle5 days ago
+5
I mean, I am talking out my ass here, cause I don't know what is out there. I just assumed there would be a targeted gun thing that fries electronics. I can imagine in my head what it would do, but I just lack the knowledge to know how it would work or if it already exists.
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BiggerCabbage5 days ago
+6
Practically speaking, there is no such thing that can affect mundane military hardening.
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Colbert20205 days ago
+2
If you can aim at a drone with a gun to jam it, you can aim at it with a gun that can just destroy it.
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YouSmellSumthin5 days ago
+8
What you're talking about does exist, but it's a much more directed-energy type of thing. If they only have 2 of those defensive tools, but drones approach from 3 or 4 different general directions, you're SoL. More akin to just shooting them down rather than pushing a big wide wave of jamming
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Yodl0075 days ago
+2
That is just EMP then ...
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devi835 days ago
+3
Microwave beams could do it yes. They gotta detect it first, and its not giving off radio signals, so that means it can fly really low and carefully to avoid radar and visual detection means, and if they can't see it, they can't aim a microwave or laser beam at it.
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canspop5 days ago
+6
Have you not seen the reports of drones in moscow this last week? They already penetrated 3 layers of 'impenetrable' air defence around the capital.
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r20025 days ago
+2
It would be hilarious if Putin pulled all defensive resources to defend this stupid parade, leaving other much higher value military targets open for attack.
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Colbert20205 days ago
+4
Russia has limited defenses against the drone strikes from Ukraine. They have been launching a campaign against refineries this year. Russia's vast geography, which was an advantage against invasion, is working against them with these kinds of attacks. They do not have the resources to prevent drones from crossing anywhere across their borders and thus have to spread their defenses out.
The parade is another additional resource they have to guard. This is a no-win scenario for Russia. The anti-drone defenses he has will be weak somewhere and if Ukraine has the proper intel, they will be able to exploit it.
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r20025 days ago
+1
Do you know if the Russian population is generally aware of these drone strikes? Or has Putin been able to hide them from his people?
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Little_Noodles4 days ago
+1
I’d assume that, even if no drones even attempt to target the parade, the knowledge that they could and the visible security that requires is, in itself, a pretty obvious hit.
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flying_pigs5 days ago
+2
Raspberry?
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DoktorBurian5 days ago
+9
Sounds like the Ukraine's fireworks will be on the parade after all. Shame I won't be there to witness it though.
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gordonjames625 days ago
+2
I really want to see them pull air defences back to Moscow, only to have oil refineries light up the sky.
Probably not great for CO2 and climate change, but I won't begrudge them these fires.
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Not_a_John5 days ago
+2
Ukraine providing military equipment for russian parade. Love it.
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Musmancer5 days ago
+4
"you have always been nice to me, don't go to school tomorrow"
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eternalityLP5 days ago
+2
Ukraine successfully striking the parade would be massive loss of face for russia. Will be interesting to see what Ukraine does. Will they strike the parade, or use the opportunity for other targets since russia has almost certainly moved lot of air defence to cover moscow, exposing other areas.
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Colbert20205 days ago
+2
It's hard to say how successful it would be. We have seen the effect of indiscriminate attacks on civilians from countries like Israel and Russia and how it turns the wider world against them. Maybe you think: "Who cares?" but these things do matter especially when Ukraine relies on support from Western nations to continue its war effort.
If Ukraine had the opportunity to do widespread death and destruction in the parade, I don't think they would. But even exploding one bomb during their parade would cause panic and humiliate Putin.
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mellbs5 days ago
+1
I think they mean it this year too
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Front_Promise_59915 days ago
+1
I imagine parade will be boring.
And I guess the Americans told Zelensky to keep low profile.
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pentox705 days ago
+1
That's one advantage that drones have brought to warfare. It has turned dictators like Putin into a groundhog. They hide underground and are terrified every time they pop their head above ground.
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Iobserv5 days ago
+1
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Iobserv5 days ago
+1
Good day to bl0w a certain problematic bridge up.
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StockHand19674 days ago
+1
The comedian has become a GANGSTER
(CUE Godfather music)
I like it
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Sand-Discombobulated4 days ago
+1
where can I watch this parade live?
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juicy_meat_legs5 days ago
+1
so who thinks ukraine will attack the parade?
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Consistent_Catch99175 days ago
+11
Don't think so, but its the ideal situation to attack other key targets in Russia as Moscow probably will have weakened its air defenses elsewhere to protect the parade.
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Tuigh-van-den-righel5 days ago
+2
I don't. There is nothing really worthy of attacking. No hardware, just marching troops who are worth a few hours of kills on the frontlines.
It would have a averse effect, Moscow would be forced to retaliate massively and it would probbaly up the approval rates for the war amongst Russians, it's a very important and symbolic day for them, max patriotism.
Getting the parade canceled though, that would be such a massive insult and flex.
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Colbert20205 days ago
+1
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rcanhestro5 days ago
-10
i doubt it.
even the allies would look at that with disdain (it is a parade to celebrate the end of WW2).
and Putin might use that to bombard even harder Kyiv.
he won't go for nukes, but he legit might unleash his stashed arsenal on Ukraine as retalliation.
Russia might be okay with some war of attriction for now, but bombing a parade, in the middle of Moscow, might just be the last insult Putin would accept.
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androshalforc15 days ago
+10
I agree that Ukraine is not likely to attack the parade directly. They would probably be willing to attack other military targets in moscow that can be seen from the parade grounds.
However if you still think russia has a cache of the good troops and or equipment that they have been holding back on that’s just laughable.
russia was all in from the start, and now they’re on the verge of collapse. If they even have nukes anymore they’re probably afraid to even try them in case they end up blowing up in their faces.
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EnigmA03x5 days ago
+2
what stash bro? the like 15 Su-57 or the 10 T-14's with paper cannon barrels
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Disastrous_Fee_87125 days ago
+1
I want real fireworks this time.
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Disastrous_Map_33555 days ago
+1
How much do you wanna bet the Kerch strait bridge is going to be attacked again and this is all for show?
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Mother_Airline_62765 days ago
+1
“Russia had [**unilaterally declared a ceasefire from May 8 to 10”**](https://www.dw.com/en/russia-offers-ukraine-may-8-9-ceasefire-amid-wwii-anniversary-but-threatens-major-reprisals-in-same-breath/a-77045078)**.**
**That means F*** All. Always has with Vlad. Between this guy, his orange ballsac and Bibi, (insert things that would get me a ban on Listnook)**
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ExternalObjective6415 days ago
I mean, Trump is Putin’s best friend. You can’t tell him no.
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Odd-Collection25675 days ago
-32
Zelenskyy is just mad he didnt get invited
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ZooneTrooper5 days ago
+6
Who wants to go to a party full of bullies?
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korndaweizen5 days ago
+5
If russia could, they probably would. Not much difference in leveling a city bombing any civilian structure one by one or just make a big boom at once tbh...
At some point ukraine needs to either give up or call the bluffs.
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korndaweizen5 days ago
+26
You get the military part in military parade? I guess soldiers and war machines seem like very good targets for a preventive strike of a defender. Does not matter if they are in a base, on the battlefield or nicely lined up and sorted in a parade.... Why do I even bother.... Ah well...
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anotherfpguy5 days ago
+41
I thought this was sarcasm but after checking out your history you're serious
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Necessary_Pea_49005 days ago
+27
Since your Earth model probably is flat and the drones are assuming a globe, your assesment must be that they will miss the Red Square completely /s
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ZooneTrooper5 days ago
+2
What an irony!... innocent people. Do you still remember the Bucha massacre?
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animatedpileofmeat5 days ago
+1
This, but sarcastically and in a funny voice.
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kalle135 days ago
+1
>I don't want some mad man in eastern Europe willing to kill innocent people to get political points.
You just described Putin in that sentence.
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