What they're both in denial about is that China and Russia is just 2 heads of the same animal.
If they devote resources to counter Russia, China will run around and keep encircling them on the global stage uncontested.
Meanwhile directly resisting China is difficult and an unchecked Russia will be able to mess with EU, America's last friends.
America simply doesn't have the resources it needs to spend. It's going against the largest economy in the world backed by the largest resource ownership in the world, while US economy has been stagnant and receding for years.
Their last chance was flipping Russia in the early 2000s. But this was made near impossible by the inclusion of baltics into NATO, and now, Russia has either been forced or decided by its own hand to cleanly cut ties with the west.
After being delayed by the covid19 pandemic, China is starting to wake up. It is reaching out to flip the middle east and to breakup EU over the long term.
But China has not even reached close to its potential in creating an anti American atmosphere.
