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10th May 2022, 12:43 AM
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May Day Parades
The usual May Day Parade in Russia was again this year celebrated watched by the rest of the world for any words out of the ordinary spoken by the Russian President. To me and probably many others when seeing a countries hardware of mass destruction brings two reasons why they should do so , rather than display them in a museum. Is it Symbolic or Satanic ?
and tend to drift to the second. The propoganda put out by these parades of modern technology is a way to tell the world , look what’s waiting for you if you step out of our line. Notice the countries that do it also. To celebrate the demise of the Nazi s in WW 11 could be celebrated by a march by their armed forces alone to represent their fathers and grand parents . It is pure propoganda the show being put together by the dictators and bullies of this world and people would be wise to ignore and not give it the authenticity it so widely desires, the best way to do this is to ignore as pompous idiocy by mental idiots of the worse kind. JS.
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10th May 2022, 01:12 AM
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Re # 1.
No good sticking your head in the sand John, especially when your earmarked to be first on the list to be nuked by the bully
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10th May 2022, 01:17 AM
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One way of getting at the enemy Fouro, The rest of the body can follow the head in the sand and come up under your adversary , then stick your periscope up his backside and connect it to the 24 volt battery and give him the shock of his life . Cheers JS
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10th May 2022, 06:16 AM
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According to one from USA who in the past has had dealings with Putin he is not winning the war and is in bad health.
One report puts him on steroids for some form of cancer.
One of the Russian oil barons also spoke out against him, but is safe at the moment some where in the Medi region.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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10th May 2022, 07:03 AM
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He’s there to carry the flack. There will be plenty more behind him to carry on with the same policy’s he has started with all their backing. As for the one in the medi no doubt he can be got at by one of the stewards with a poisoned tea bag. Maybe a Ringtons one to throw the blame at Boris . JS
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10th May 2022, 07:52 AM
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I remember reading an article many years ago, that the majority of equipment on show was actually made of plywood.
Vic
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11th May 2022, 05:46 AM
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Could not do that now, wood prices have sky rocketed, cheaper to use the real thing now.
Latest bit on the news, he is getting very anxious that he is losing the war, not winning as he planned to do.
Will some one continue if he goes, maybe but all will depend on how the world sees a new leader.


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12th May 2022, 05:43 AM
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I hear Ukraine, with a 50's MN sense of humour, had their own parade, with captured and burnt out Russian equipment.
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