No downside except unless our Spoiled Brat in the WH (and McCain prods it along) goes after Russia with our own troops on the ground in Syria. This is where WW3 will kick off officially in the not to distant future.
That IMHO is something Beelzebama might do to satisfy his truly monstrous ego..
“No downside except unless our Spoiled Brat in the WH (and McCain prods it along) goes after Russia with our own troops on the ground in Syria.”
There aren’t too many good sides to having a hollowed out military, but one good side is that a guy like Obama can’t get away with sending large numbers of troops on his pet adventures...since we no longer have large numbers of troops. Send a few battalions over there and he’ll be forced to issue draft orders to Americans, which I don’t see happening.