The US Were Clearly Not Ready To Come To The Table.

https://english.news.cn/20220311/7a9874071fa548608df2b80340c2783f/c.html

Until they've learnt that universal lesson;

It's the doing of the incredibly stupid thing. Which makes the humilating climbdown inevitable.

Perhaps if the EU had helped its ally arrive at that conclusion. Before including other parties.

The US would have been discouraged from doing other incredibly stupid things.