what happened in ukraine, may actually freed the uncle sam's hand to deal with China, now that the EU is forced to deal with Russia. Didn't you feel that the US is avoiding direct confrontation with the Russians, while pushing its proxies to engage the Russians? Some US politicians even argued that the US should stop the funding to Ukraine, which I suspected is because they probably think the deal is done, there is no need to pour more money into that meat grinder. Better spent it on project that contain China. The US is 110% focus on dealing with China. Not to mention the war also threw China OBOR project into pit fire.

The US is the ONLY BENEFICIARY from the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is the biggest loser here, while EU and Russia are second. China is probably the third position.

The only threat the US face is the deep polarization in the US political scene, which unfortunately doesn't mean much in the case of China since both parties are united in hostility against China. Trump has opened the US politicians' eyes that it is easy to score political scores by playing China card in US politics. Luckily, the deep polarization in the US politics also mean that the US has a deep structural weakness that could send that nation into deep trouble in the future.