This May 9, only 25 Russian ground combat systems will be represented by 131 ground combat vehicles. Soldiers march during the military parade marking the 76th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, Russia's term for World War II, on Red Square in Moscow. Russia has scaled down their May 9 Victory Day Parade by almost 35 percent, according to Forbes magazine. Does size matter?īack to Moscow and it’s iconic Red Square. “That would flip out the world,” says Baker said.
Kaliningrad is a Russian oblast located 190 miles west of mainland Russia, resting beside Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic Sea, a German port city turned Russian in the aftermath of the Second World War. In the Arctic, Russia can test their nuclear power torpedoes or launch their nuclear power cruise missiles, and really demonstrate these ultimate technologies – technically in a place that doesn’t force Europeans directly to respond unless they will be flying them over or launching them from Kaliningrad.” And the Russians have been much after building Arctic infrastructure, more than anyone else in the region. “The Russians have made it really clear that if Sweden and Finland join NATO the Arctic Council is dead. “Right now, I am keeping my eye on the Arctic,” he said. However, if it comes to showing off power, Baker looks north. President Vladimir Putin on Thursday postponed a landmark military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II, as Russia. “If the Russian’s are going to make use of that day for a political display, they’ll do it in Moscow or elsewhere,” said Baker, stating he has no intelligence report on this specific topic. I was eager to know what he thought will happen on this great national Russian holiday. Eyes on the ArcticĪpril 28, the WPI fellows met Rodger Baker, the director of Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE. In short, I am just petrified guessing what a humiliated Putin will decide to do on the upcoming Monday. Since the attack, I have not been grinning about the show. This time he took it a step further, saying the Soviet people were 'alone. Putin’s propaganda did come in handy when Russia fiercely attacked Ukraine, and declared to “free the nation from the Nazi regime.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has often ignored the Wests role in his May 9 speeches marking victory in World War II. In February 2022, I learned why the Nazi talk had been going on and amplifying. There is no need to keep ranting about an old victory over Nazis, I thought and giggled a bit seeing videos of the ridiculous parade in May 2021. I wondered, why on earth is the Kremlin building this up? For sure, Germany has been one of the most stable powers in the Western world for decades. The Victory Day military parade through Red Square has been an almost painfully nationalistic display of power. For years, I have watched Russia putting up parades more and more pompous celebrating their victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 every May 9.
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