Military presence of USA and Russian Federation abroad.

The subject of American interference in world affairs is favorite to many people. USA is singled out as the one single unwanted presence, removal of which will immediately do a lot of good for the world. So, I thought to make a simple comparison between military presence in foreign countries of USA with some other world powers, namely the Russian Federation.

First, lets take a look at USA military presence abroad: Germany, Greenland, Guam, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Kirghizia, Netherlands, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Britain, Kuwait, Kosovo, Israel, Afghanistan, Cuba, Djibouti, Iraq, Bahrein. TOTAL: 22.

Now, the Russian military presence abroad: Georgia (Abhazia, South Osetia), Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Moldova, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine. TOTAL: 11.

Both lists include any type of military presence: the army, the air-force, the navy, military radars, etc. Both countries actually do exercise military presence of all those types. Some states welcome presence of the respective foreign military, some dont. This distinction is beyond the scope of this comparison. The lists are based on open sources (wikipedia), so while they may contain errors, and most likely are incomplete, they do provide a general impression of the balance of power.

The scale of deployment is comparable, with USA having a clear x2 advantage. Is this a meaningful difference? How many countries is too many? Should we start demanding that the Russian Federation stop it's world expansion too? I, for one, am not going to answer those questions in this post :)