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During the traditional Moscow parade on May 9, the Russian president linked the commemoration of the end of World War II to the war in Ukraine in a breathless speech of ten minutes.
Fewer men, fewer vehicles and no air force. The latter was canceled due to unfavorable weather… The traditional Muscovite military parade on May 9 seemed very gloomy when we feared a virulent speech, a new stage announced in this war in Ukraine or even the mobilization of young people Russians by Vladimir Putin. In the end, the President gave an unoriginal speech, linking the fight against the Nazis of 1941 to that which the Kremlin considers that it is currently waging in Ukraine, against other “Nazis”. Rumors suggested, until the last moment, that the Head of State would have seen himself giving another dimension to the event by proclaiming Ukrainian victories.
But Mariupol has still not given in and the struggle to take Donbass is progressing slowly. It is therefore a Russia between two victories that the Russian president described in his speech of about ten minutes. In a few minutes, he supported the parallel he wishes to create between these two wars by ensuring that he works for “denazify Ukraine” and qualified the 10,000 men present on the Place Rou…