I mean my god they seem absolutely committed to driving us all off a cliff to hang on to their already-collapsing hegemony. Is there literally anything short of getting their teeth kicked in by a nuclear launch that could convince the leaders of "the free world" to once, just fucking once, willingly take the L?
I don't want to die in the opening cutscene of a Fallout game because whoever the hell is in charge of Germany these days decided to get into a pissing match with fucking Putin of all people.
The only thing that would stop them is a better opportunity for war somewhere else. Notice how quickly this happened after the US pulled out of Afghanistan (and ofc the saber rattling with China in between). The US needs its bombs to go somewhere to justify the expense of making them. We are still stuck in the Forever War and it will continue until the US fundamentally changes.