Russia and Ukraine

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

1/3 of Syria (24,000 square miles) "occupied"  ... by 900 soldiers.

Syria has an area of 71 500 square miles. If the US is occupying 1/3 of that, this that means each of the 900 US soldiers in-country controls about 28 square miles. Fucking badasses.

By way of comparison, it took Russia 200 000 troops to gain shaky control of 35 000 square miles of Ukraine. In other words, it took Russia almost six soldiers (not counting the dead ones) to occupy each square mile of Ukrainian soil. Fucking clown shoes.

(For purposes of the above, I’m buying into Bel’s absurd notion that the US troops in Syria are a force of occupation).

Boru