>>507426831
>China and Russia are both great powers and they do military parades like this. The powers of Europe used to do parades. There’s nothing “third world” about military parades.
It takes dozens of hours dedicated specifically to marching in time to choregraph routines like that. It's literally the military equivalent of those dance routines that pop stars do, with everyone moving on time to the beat in a very specific way that looks good on camera.
Training your soldiers to do this, takes time away from training them to do actually important things. Militaries in the early 20th century trained their soldiers to march like that because the average soldier was not actually expected to be a skilled combatant was given only the most rudimentary marksmanship training and the only thing that was valued was training them to follow orders. So having them spend all their free time marching around in pretty little formations, moving their arms at exactly the precise angle at exactly the precise time, wasn't considered a waste of time because soldiers would have nothing else to do to fill their time.
It's an obsolete practice from a bygone era, and the only people that still do implement it on a mass scale are people whose militaries are still stuck in the past. This may comes as a shock to you but Russia and China's militaries have only recently starting to modernize, which is why you still see them wasting their time and money training thousands of solders to do something with no military value what so ever.