Kinda reminds me of Pakistan-1979. Soviets invade Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter sends 2 billion(could be wrong) and the Pakistan strongman calls it peanuts. Just what do we owe these ungrateful folks?
Let them wonder how much less money will be in their countries economy if we are not there.
This doesn’t even consider what might change with their strained relationship with the red China across the way from them.
They are ingrates.....
The answer is to get all these Asian nations to work together to adequately defend themselves against the big bully-China. They have a lot more at stake. Sounds like an attitude of ‘you go first’. ‘Let uncle Sam deal with it’. If the issue is money Biden will give it to them. If it military might we’ll find out who the chumps are.