“Where are Shoigu’s medals?
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He never had any - those were all cardboard commemorative medals - because he was never in the Russian army.
Thus Girkin's pet name for him, the "Cardboard Marshal". I really do hate when our government puts a military uniform on a civilian bureaucrat. I mean, nothing screams "banana republic" like civilian government officials in military uniform. Always pissed me off to see a fat out of shape guy in an admiral's uniform as surgeon general, but "Rachel Levine" in a military uniform is the ultimate insult.