Is there anyone the US doesn't want to provoke? Basically hung Ukraine out to dry in order to pick a fight that's akin to a reverse Cuban missile crisis, now starting to bully China.
All from a country that's tearing itself in half, with a justice system full of judges biased to the party that appointed them, and laws being passed that set the country back fifty years.
Not to mention a terrorist attack on the Nordstream pipeline in order to ensure the US gets to sell gas to Europe while the poorer citizens of said continent freeze this winter.
Time everyone in Europe distanced themselves from the US before they damage out economies further.