If you want to start a dark age, go right ahead.
The US military has become the Imperial forces. If we pull back from Japan, China will be running the place in a generation. That would start Russia getting very nervous, and looking to either counter China or expand back into Europe.
Once the Legions leave, the barbarians will come in.
You are thinking within the framework of the Cold War which is no more.
The two front war the U.S planned for is done for. We didn’t grow weaker. The rest of the world is just catching up in productivity, inventiveness, and economic juggernauts.
Large Navies are closer to obsolescence and we’re in the birth period of mass drone and automated warfare. Without dominant Navies, deployed forces abroad have become vulnerable. Evan conventional Air superiority will move closer to ineffectiveness. Perhaps not close air support for a while, but transport of troops, equipment and resupplies will be in jeopardy.
Military technology and strategic shifts to new technology are moving quite rapidly.
I think Trump is eyeing a Russian American alliance of sort. This is Trumps equivalent of playing the ‘Russian’ card and abandoning Nixon’s China card.
The problem is the globalists and their desire for unfettered immigration from Muslim countries into Europe to homogenize the world -— something China is not going to accept for themselves.
There is so much strategic holes in our current deployment it is time to pull back and consolidate around what we have and what is ours.
Allies will be invited to participate, but I think Trump is going to hold until certain agreements and subordinations are made.
In other words, Nato has died, long live Nato. The new Nato with centralized command under the United States. Will become a quasi nation state.
It’s just a matter of time. We are weakened from 8 years of war, then 8 years of Obama. I would be very surprised if the nuclear forces of the U.S are up to par.
Now, adding in the fact of the economic constraints we’re now facing and will continue to face for at least a generation, it is imperitive that the U.S start strategically withdrawing from places not willing to join and co-fund and participate in similar economic systems.