US continues to be an outstanding military force around the world, however, this does not mean, that the Russian can not be influenced in any part of the world, He writes Newsweek magazine quoted the deputy head of the Pentagon aide for Russia and Eurasia, Evelyn Farkas.
According to the magazine, Russia today is abroad 21 military facility. They are located in Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova (Transnistria), Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), Syria and Vietnam.
In the United States the figure is several hundred - of 600 to 900 (at 2009 It was said about 716 objects). But, despite, that this amount also includes the base, which are located not more than 10 military (and in Iceland, eg, US Armed Forces presented a military transmitter, established fishing town Grindavík), America ahead of Russia in more than 10 time.
Wherein, as noted by Farkas, this circumstance does not prevent the Russian government have a "disproportionate" impact on some regions.
According to Pentagon officials, Moscow generally learn to save power and does not use more resources, than the circumstances require in solving the problems.
Farkas also noted, that whether Moscow has the money, she would have willingly agreed to increase the number of bases. But today she copes with foreign missions, lying down in the means, who has.
