Do You agree that the Army should NOT downsize its Airborne Brigade in Alaska while Russia builds up and Canada does Airborne Ops?

Downsizing in general was predicated on the thought that since the USSR no longer existed and Russia (at the time) was no longer a threat, we didn't need as large a force anymore. Well, things change. Russia is re-emerging under Putin as a threat and is re-arming and being as provocative as the old USSR ever was.

it seems to me...and I'm just a little of decade vet, that whenever the US draws down, inevitably, we go to a war...take WWII for instance, we drew down big time...and bam, we get invaded, now I was out before 9/11, but weren't we downsized/downsizing before Iraq and Afghanistan?

No I don't agree. We have a lowly 55 miles separating our borders and we have all of 2 BCTs on the ground there plus attachments. Now take into account that one of our nations strongest military allies is also there conducting their own training and have power behind us in that A.O. I think that maybe enough to deter to much getting out of control there. Then of course you have to think about what our Navy is doing under the ice up there that no one knows about, scaring the crap out the Russians.