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And the Russians just need to surround/pin down those troops with minimal casualties while they secure the rest of their objectives. We're talking battalions,

And the Russians just need to surround/pin down those troops with minimal casualties while they secure the rest of their objectives. We're talking battalions, not divisions. Their practical ability to fight an invasion is limited. We didn't re-invade Afghanistan because some US soldiers were killed during the withdrawal.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> We didn't re-invade Afghanistan because some US soldiers were killed during the withdrawal. And the failure to do that was very explicitly the basis of massive domestic criticism of the Administration; it took executive commitment to weather popular opposition to maintain the withdrawal policy. So, while the facts you recite are accurate, they don't actually support the argument about political support you are making.