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It is pretty easy to put on an impressive parade when you have a military of 2 million people and aren't a global power vs the US with 1.3m and have bases all over the globe. Even Russia was able to put on a bigger parade while they were fighting Ukraine and had lost tens of thousands of soldiers.
The parade was pretty paltry, but the fireworks display was very ostentatious. Breaking out the vintage stuff was cool, but lame that they didn't at least put some mock .50s on the half track.
Honestly this shit parade made me realize how our imperialist strategy would make us very vulnerable to any actual war in the US
I think the difference there is you'd probably notice a ton of troops like, literally gathering for war. You'd have enough time to mobilize and house them. Parades are not important enough to pull that many troops away, and it'd be way more than this one cost.
Now, a civil war... nah, I feel like by the time anyone organized you'd have plenty of troops ready to squash it.
About the vintage stuff - they got that from Hollywood costume and props rental houses, and only started organising that last-minute, so they got rinsed on the price.
They obviously just pocketed the money.