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…need that many troops. Their failure as military planners guaranteed that the Iraq occupation would end in failure. Even after it became obvious that this was going to be a hostile occupation, they never increased the number of troops to a level that would have produced a successful occupation.
I point out all of this because Russia made the exact same mistakes. They assumed they didn't need soldiers in a 1 to 50 ratio because they would be greeted as liberators.
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Tofu Golem
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2025-08-24 16:55:54 UTC
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