"Who on the Trumper side is gonna argue that this isn't exactly what Putin wants?"

Did you read the comments at the bottom of the article?

The worst thing that could happen to Russia is that European countries increase their defense spending and begin re-arming. It's already happening. Poland is poised to become the strongest military power in western Europe. Between them, the Scandanavian countries already have the ability to hold the entire commie western flank at risk. The US could never do that on its own, even if it wasn't directing the bulk of its resources on the Pacific.

It's not, or at least it shouldn't be a strong US that Russia fears, it should be a strong Europe. And many European countries still remember the threat of the commie bootheel.

The north remembers!

"The Europeans will take care of themselves, but do not think pulling these troops out of Europe is going to save any money as we will be back soon enough to fight the Russian and their lackeys."

More likely, the troops would be repositioned to better support a fight in the Pacific. I'm a Europe guy, so I'm not super smart on the China problem set, but my understanding is there isn't a Polish or Finnish or Norwegian equivalent in that theater. It's the US, Australia, and maybe some support from Korea or Japan.