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Originally Posted by Mutt
The US should bail out completely, the peoples' revolt in Syria was doomed to fail, the common folk of Syria wanted it to end, it's why they're risking their lives and their childrens to get out. Let Russia get its ass handed to it, they won't win there any more than they won in Afghanistan or we won anything in Iraq.
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Just one note about Afghanistan. I don't understand why do you guys think the goal was not achieved. The only reason of Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan was killing of Amin. His palace was stormed by Soviet Spetsnaz with support of GRU and VDV (in total 661 soldiers were involved) on 27th December of 1979. All the 2200 guards who protected Amin were defeated and Amin was killed. Soviet forces have lost 52 men, so the goal was achieved:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm-333
Why Soviet has decided to stay in Afghanistan after that is still over of my mind. There was no real reason to do so. They army was pulled out by the Gorbachev's good will in 1989 and it was not a retreat. It was something like a solemn parade:
The result of that war: 15 thousands of Soviet soldiers and about 1 million of mujaheddins were killed.