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OftenBen · 2839 days ago · link · · parent · post: U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield in first direct assault on Bashar al-Assad’s government
Geography has always been my worst subject. I need maps, and maps that can compare the scale of a city/nation to something that makes sense to me. It boggles my mind that all these areas are so close. It really is tribal warfare.
I wholeheartedly recommend a historical atlas. They're great for perspective. It's worth noting that the Iraq War was basically the Invasion of California (from a perspective of geographical equivalency) and that London, during the reign of Henry VIII, had a population of 50,000 people... making the Plantagenet Succession the modern equivalent of a particularly bloody rural city council meeting. Behold: The Gaza Strip.
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