The military flex of the annual Victory Day celebrations in Moscow will be largely absent on Saturday as talk swirls around assassination and coup fears preoccupying Russian President Vladimir Putin . Putin has used the anniversary marking the Soviet role in the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II to brandish his tools of war and, since his latest aggression in Ukraine started in February 2022, frame himself and his troops as the moral heirs to the Red Army fight against fascism. But amid