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Originally Posted by Table 5
So under 2% of their overall arsenal (assuming that everything has equal value, which I know it doesn't). So probably not enough to make a big strategic dent in the big picture?
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It's actually a pretty big dent, Russia can't pull up a lot of their forces to move to Ukraine. Dictators need to project force at home, plus is always busy in Georgia and Kazakhstan regions. If they just pulled out of there, things would hit the fan fast.
Plus Russia is huge, they can't pull force out of the East, plus not sure what those local populations would do, maybe they'd just declare independence.
Add on top of that, Russia's involvement in Syria.
Also for context, the coalition lost 274 aircraft in 20 years in Afghanistan.