I think it’d have made more sense to focus on China rather than picking fights with every nation under the sun all at once. You defeat your biggest adversary, then the others are easier.
Unless you don’t want to go straight to war with your biggest adversary. By applying it uniformly you aren’t singling anyone in particular out. That also lends itself to the rationale that the imbalance needs to be addressed not just an imbalance with one country.
Britain and the US are now Islam Dhimmi nations. It’s not like the 1940s when we shared similar ideologies.