> For starter, maybe the US doesn't need to be involved in both Ukraine, the middle East and Pacific at the same time don't you think? We aren’t, at least not

> For starter, maybe the US doesn't need to be involved in both Ukraine, the middle East and Pacific at the same time don't you think? We aren’t, at least not militarily. The only thing we’re going to do about Ukraine is try and convince the Europeans to agree to multilateral economic sanctions, which some of them won’t do because Russian natural gas is their only reliable source of energy now that they’ve decommissioned a bunch of perfectly good nuclear power plants. > An army twice or thrice less big could easily fend off China's threat on Taiwan Look at a map sometime. Taiwan is an island, which means the primary means of defending it will be the Navy, not the Army. If the Army gets involved at all, something has already gone significantly wrong. Even setting that aside, China has a bigger army than we do. So if we were going to take your suggestion and use our army to deter theirs, making ours even smaller would not be helpful.