Moscow is set to mark Victory Day with a Red Square parade under tight security
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
Mainstream coverage treats Moscow’s Victory Day parade like a pageant under “tight security,” as if the story is mainly optics and crowd control. That framing skips the point: the Kremlin uses history as a tool, polishing yesterday’s sacrifice to excuse today’s aggression. The question isn’t whether Putin can stage-manage Red Square.
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Security is tight in Moscow as President Vladimir Putin prepares to speak at a Red Square parade on Saturday, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II
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Mainstream coverage treats Moscow’s Victory Day parade like a pageant under “tight security,” as if the story is mainly optics and crowd control. That framing skips the point: the Kremlin uses history as a tool, polishing yesterday’s sacrifice to excuse today’s aggression.
The question isn’t whether Putin can stage-manage Red Square. It’s how propaganda, intimidation, and selective memory harden a regime that threatens Europe and targets the West with sabotage and cyberattacks. National security is not a theater review, and public trust matters when adversaries rewrite the past to justify the present.
America should remember the real allied victory while insisting on rule of law and institutional stability abroad and at home. A parade cannot launder an invasion, and it should not distract us from the principle that borders are not negotiable by force.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.