There's a fear that the may ninth rhetoric about the present threat may kind of be catching up with reality. Puten really didn't lay out any kind of path to how this war is going to end. And what we have not seen yet is putten respond somehow. He's been saying and threatening that he hit back. A few weeks ago, he said that his retaliatory strike would be lightning fast.
For years, President Vladimir V. Putin has taken advantage of Victory Day — when Russians commemorate the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany — to champion his country’s military might and project himself as a leader of enormous power.
This year, he drew on the pageantry of May 9 for an even more pressing goal: making the case for the war in Ukraine.
Guest: Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.
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