Victory Parade
Use attributes for filter ! | |
Music groups | My Favourite Game |
---|---|
My Favourite Goal | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 2894751 |
About Victory Parade
Chelsea players and fans celebrate their victory.
Ukraine war: BBC on the front line as Ukraine attacks Russian trenches
... I want to take part in the Victory Parade...
Wrexham: Can football fame make City of Culture vulture?
... This year s festival got under way in the city just a day after the Wrexham Victory Parade - with Thompson among the thousands out to catch a glimpse...
Nigeria election 2023: The battle for Lagos
... He has run a nimble campaign, visiting poor villagers in remote areas where he is popular, and his entrance into Lagos, when he rode in an open-roof car from one part of the city to another, felt like a Victory Parade...
Ukraine war: Five ways conflict could go in 2023
... No other outcome except Russian defeat It s too early to plan a Victory Parade in Kyiv but all the momentum is with Ukraine now and there is no doubt in my mind that they will win this war, probably in 2023...
Ukraine war: Besieged defenders 'must surrender' and Putin apology' - round-up
... A victory rehearsalFootage has emerged of the preparations of the annual Victory Parade in Moscow - a commemoration of Russia s win over Nazi Germany in World War Two...
Ukraine war: Zelensky plea as Russians seek Mariupol endgame
... But Western officials have speculated that President Vladimir Putin could use the 9 May Victory Parade to announce an escalation of military action...
Ukraine war: Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May
... But Western officials have speculated that President Vladimir Putin could use the 9 May Victory Parade to announce an escalation of military action...
Ukraine invasion: Is this a new Cold War, asks John Simpson
... Maybe he ll succeed again, carving through the Ukrainian armed forces, making some significant gains, then withdrawing quickly and holding a Victory Parade...
Ukraine invasion: Is this a new Cold War, asks John Simpson
This feels very much like The End of an era. In November 1989, when the Berlin Wall came Down , We Believed that the old division of The World into East versus West was just history. Because the ideological conflict between capitalism and Communism had evaporated, there was a feeling that we were all basically on the same side.
The trouble was, for Vladimir Putin , the one-time KGB officer based in East Germany , the collapse of the old Soviet Union seems to have morphed into a bitter personal resentment which grew worse as The Years went by. The fact that Ukraine, once a key part of the USSR, broke away from The Russian Federation was an insult To Everything Putin believed in.
It didn't matter that Russia had signed an international agreement accepting the boundaries of the new Ukrainian State . By 2014 President Putin had spotted a way of Taking Over Crimea, The Most symbolically Russian part of Ukraine, by infiltrating his soldiers into the peninsula.
They blocked it off, and after holding a referendum of the mostly ethnic Russian population he turned it effectively into part of the Russian State . It was against International Law , but The West still clung to the notion that it could do business with Putin's Russia.
There were speeches and sanctions, but nothing that that made President Putin or his associates have serious Second Thoughts .
The same thing happened when Putin's enemies, or people the old KGB and its successor the STB, regarded as traitors, were poisoned, shot or otherwise disposed of in Britain and Europe. The West issued warnings and imposed new sanctions, but Putin's Russia was prepared To Live with them.
In The Past 10 Years , Russia started to form a new bloc with China - not necessarily hostile to The West , but providing support for each other in The Face of Western criticism.
President Xi Jinping and President Putin created a mutual Support Group . Now China is refusing to condemn Russia for its actions in Ukraine, and people in Taiwan, the breakaway territory which Xi Jinping has always refused to say he won't invade, are starting to wonder if it could be their turn next.
Altogether, then, The World is a far more worrying place than it was a few years ago. By comparison, the old Cold War years were far simpler, and for The Most part The Rules were a lot more Clear - if one side intruded into The Other 's space, there was the ever-present threat of all-out mutually assured destruction. So it Never Happened , even though war came uncomfortably close More Than once.
But after the collapse of Communism, the old rule-book was torn up. Now the boundaries are so vague, no-one knows where the Red Lines run.
With hindsight, and there's starting to be a lot of that, some politicians and academics are saying that Nato should perhaps have changed its whole approach after the Berlin Wall came Down - it should have avoided humiliating Moscow by taking its old satellites in Eastern Europe on board, and lining them up in a way that seemed to Putin's Russia to be confrontational.
The mere suggestion that Ukraine might One Day join Nato (even though it has always been regarded as unlikely) enraged the Kremlin, and helped persuade President Putin that he must deal with Ukraine once and for all.
Everyone knows this is his policy, and his alone. Various Russian politicians and even some leading military figures came out beforehand against any invasion. But Putin wouldn't be deflected. Now it's got to succeed, and Russia has got to come out as the Clear victor, if his throw of the dice is to win The Game . But military adventures like this are notoriously capable of Going Wrong .
Putin did succeed in Crimea, eight years ago, and his position At Home was greatly reinforced. Maybe he'll succeed again, carving through the Ukrainian armed forces, making some significant gains, then withdrawing quickly and holding a Victory Parade .
It's perfectly possible. But suppose it doesn't happen this way. If Russian soldiers start dying in sizeable numbers and the sanctions against Russia start to have an effect, then Putin's own position will suffer.
What will he do then? There is only one answer - he'll clamp Down on any domestic criticism even harder than he already has, in the name of National Security . Russia is, even now, a surprisingly open society compared with The Past .
BBCThat, surely, would come to an end. The Russian economy would suffer, and Chinese help wouldn't Make Up for The Loss .
So Vladimir Putin , who seems to have launched his attack on Ukraine because of his 30-year resentment over the collapse of the old Soviet empire, might turn Russia back to The Days of the USSR. And The West , which has tried for so long to pretend that Russia is just Another Country we can do business with, might find that the old days had come right back with a Vengeance .
Source of news: bbc.com