I utterly disagree. Sure you don’t want to project weakness, but getting bogged down in Ukraine is an open invitation for China to take Taiwan and step up the pace of taking down the US by disrupting our supply chain and cutting us off from essential things.]
The US does not need to prove stomach for engaging in armed conflict. We have been doing it since the end of WWII. We have spread a lot of death and destruction. The only thing we haven’t done is actually establish permanent control on the ground. In this last we have been beaten back every....single...bloody....time.
We did our supply chain eff-up to ourselves. It’s one of those things we never should have gotten into in the frist place - like Ukraine.
2) Supply chain issues are caused by China, not Russia, and if they wanted to screw with us, they could do it regardless of what was happening in Ukraine.
So I'd rather they know ahead of time that the West won't fold like a cheap suit of they start getting aggressive.