For the first time, soldiers from Britain, the U.S., and France have participated in a V-E Day parade in Moscow. The event was not entirely free of diplomatic tensions, however, as Vladimir Putin apparently disinvited both Prince Charles and V.P. Biden. On the other hand, official relations between Russia and Israel may be improving.
Symbols and symbolic occasions, of course, have been and still are important elements of international politics, although evidently I haven't paid a lot of attention to them in this blog. A search on "symbols" turns up only one post, for a quoted reference to border walls as "symbols of separation."
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LFC
I enjoyed that video clip for several reasons that have nothing to do with your post.
But US and UK participation, despite the usual politicking, a very symbolic event, relative the easing of old cold war grudges. Biden and Charles were disinvited for much more current reasons.
True.
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