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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Victory Day, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

The Phony War on the coronavirus

Leaders everywhere are ramping up the martial rhetoric, in part to back their critics into a corner