19 November 2015 - France at war

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So... France is at war with the Islamic Self-Indicated State. That changes everything. The number of troops you need to defeat an insurgency depends not on the number of enemies, but on the size of the local population. Suddenly the calculus shifts on Syrian refugees—more is better!

clue:

Syria’s population has supposedly fallen from 22 to about 16 million.

take oh take this clue away

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