Meanwhile China is watching this with mountng glee.
NATO is raidly expending its weapons stocks in Ukraine, in some cases towards a hazardous level and the war is nowhere near yet done. If Putain makes his next logical move up the Suwalki gap that'll empty NATO stocks altogether. Even if not NATO's stocks will take half a decade or more to replenish.
And there will be nothing left in the box to prevent China from just walking into Taiwan.
Except...