Putin's "real war" speech - what did he actually mean?
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Putin's Rhetoric on the Russian War
There were a lot fewer tanks at the Victory Day Parade in Moscow. This is not because they don't have them, but because Putin didn't want to emphasize that side of it. I think they just wanted this parade and the whole event to be over quite quickly. They've lost happy tanks - what? 1500? 1500, yeah. At least that are certifiably lost by visual identification. And actually, it's climbing now towards over 2000. Of course, we also heard from Vladimir Putin himself. There was an awful lot of quite concerning rhetoric being used. But he's painting a picture of the West being mad, bad and dangerous to Russia. It is that it's propagating
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