We do need to reshuffle our forces. We need troops at home to secure our southern border and we need more soldiers and equipment in Asia. Do we really need to be anywhere near as heavily deployed in Europe as we are? Honestly if Russia wants Europe let them have it.
What? And pay all those pensions? Crazy Ivan isn't THAT crazy.
RE: Honestly if Russia wants Europe let them have it.
Some history books actually said that FDR believed something similar at the Tehran and Yalta Conference in the 1940’s.
He allowed Stalin to have his way with Eastern Europe.
His affectionate name for Stalin : “Uncle Joe”.
In this time, we can deploy our troops as needed extremely fast. We don’t need to have them based in every country. When it comes to Hitler and Japan, are they saying that we should have pre-emted a strike on Germany and Japan? We also aren’t the police of the world.