Not likely to happen, despite our worthless & feckless POTUS and the nearly-insane neocon faction that hateshateshates ethnic Russians with a passion.
In one way, we are somewhat blessed by BHO's supine posture in the face of world events. He was not willing to go to war with Russia over the issue of Russia's law against recruiting minors into homosexual liaisons, thus avoiding World War G. There were plenty in the NYT and elsewhere that wanted to go hammer & tongs after Russia in Ukraine and elsewhere because of the sainted sodomites. Presidential ennui FTW.
The USA has reduced its capability quite a bit against a peer foe, given:
1. 14 year emphasis on counter-insurgency.
2. Reduction in armed forces.
3. Reduction has been in the useful personnel. Careerist bureaucratic barnacles are now a larger proportion of total.
Where we are likely to see these chickens come home to roost is in east asia, where the red chinese have so many assets to call on, we would likely be hard-pressed to control the air space and littoral bits unless we were willing to lose a couple fleet carriers, our bases in guam, okinama, japan, & S korea. And by "lose" those bases, I mean rubbled. Just look at the open sources. Even if a large proportion of Red Chinese systems go tits up, there are plenty left to do the job. Our allies need to make the swallowing of their territory an unpleasant prospect for the red chinese.
