US officials say Russia has asked China for military help in Ukraine

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33. In January 1991, after a 5 month build-up

the U.S. amassed almost 700,000 troops (out of over 900,000 total in the coalition) to remove Iraq's occupying forces from Kuwait (~100,000 Iraqi troops had been deployed to do the occupation) after Iraq annexed Kuwait, a country with a (1991) pop. ~2 million at that time and was ~7000 sq. miles in size.

Yet in 2022, Putin has been attempting to occupy the entirety of Ukraine with less than 1/3rd of the troops used in Desert Storm, where Ukraine has a pop. of ~43.5 million (over 20 times that of 1991 Kuwait, with Kuwait now at 4 million in 2022) and having an area that is over 33 times the size of Kuwait, at 233,000 sq. miles.

Add to this that Ukraine reportedly has one of the largest military forces in the area (with ~170,000 active duty), and this is all head-scratching, strongly suggesting why the Russian outreach to China.