Pence did the USA no favors at all. For four long years he cravenly accepted all of Trump's infantile moronic blustering and all of the undermining of NATO allies and thus the weakening of US credibility around the globe. This is likely partly why Putin became convinced that the West would pose no obstacle to his renewed invasion of Ukraine. Furthermore, far from sparing the USA the spectre of nuclear war, Biden's inane appeasement of Putin merely ensures that tactical nuclear weapons will be used by Russia in order to compensate for the abject failure of conventional Russian forces.

All in all, this article manages to get every salient point precisely backward.