A year ago or so I would have tepidly accepted this as an argument but there's nothing that shows any sense of urgency. It's not that there's nothing happening but it's nowhere near the level it should and there's still a sense of just waiting until he's gone. Except he was already gone and came back, which was completely predictable and he didn't fall from the sky to begin with.
The US had to be in a place where this was possible to begin with. The Democratic party offers zero genuine opposition safe for a few individuals but the establishment does everything it can to keep them out of power. No matter who takes office next, it's unlikely things will change for the better and even if so every four years the situation can go 180 again. The US is not just not a reliable partner, they've become an adversary and to some extent they always have been. We were just refusing to see it.

When it comes to defence and technology there's no coordinated effort to change things around. Trade is moving but slowly. The EU has the ability to crash the US economy tomorrow but we won't even use that fact as leverage.

Sycophancy, real or pretend, does not work. In the history of humanity sycophancy has never improved the situation and often made things worse. Appeasing a bully is the absolute worst strategy. And there's no need - we hold a tremendous amount of power but we refuse to believe in our own strength.