It is simply outrageous and far outside the confines of reality to not acknowledge the enormous difference in strength between our military and any other fighting force on Earth.
What is outrageous is that you actually believe that vapid nonsense.
We have only 10 divisions left in the Army. None in Europe and none in Korea. Russia has more front line troops waiting on the Russian Ukrainian border to invade the country than we have in all of the European Command.
And while we've been using 30 year old Tech...Putin has been spending the money he extorts from Western Europe via state run companies like Gazprom to modernize his forces from rifles to rockets.
He's getting ready to go to war with us while we have politicians trying to tie monetary increases in the defense budget to spending increases in welfare.
China is doing the same thing in the Pacific. Not to mention they run both ends of the Panama Canal...a vital military shipping lane for our Navy.
The Chinese at this point in time are an economic threat, but not a military one. Russia's GDP is the same size as freaking Tokyo.
If they aren't a military threat how do you explain what they're doing in the Pacific? They're claiming as home territory islands and reefs that are in other countries territorial waters...500 miles from their own coast. And they are building deep water ports and runways long enough to support long range bombers.
Both are totalitarian nations where the state runs the industry so talking about Russia's GDP compared to Japans is moot. Russia can dump more money into defense than will ever show up on a balance sheet. That's the way it's always been with them. Same with China.
What you don't understand is that we don't protect ourselves the same way today as we did 50 years ago. The nature of our military has changed. We are more powerful compared to other countries than we have ever been.
The nature of the threat has changed too genius. We are NOT more powerful anymore than our adversaries. We are at parity with them at best.
And isolationist anti military types like yourself with zero actual military knowledge won't be happy until they are more powerful than us.