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Isn't it obvious? The counter to this is not gonna come from the US, where the Democrats have no power and Republicans are too afraid of getting primaried (or worse!) from the MAGA mob.
The new German chancellor is hinting that Europe might have to start to go it alone. Blow up NATO and make a new NATO, which doesn't rely on the US. Start funding the Ukraine opposition directly. Oh, and stop trading oil in dollars, too. If they play it right, the EU can emerge as the world's new superpower. The US is too busy eating itself to put up any counter to that.
Maybe someday some sanity will return to the US, but the rest of the world will never trust us again, knowing how unstable we are. Until we fix our system with all of its "gentleman's agreements" and "unitary executives", we will always be (at most) one election away from total chaos.
A lotta people are pointing to China as the inevitable winner of all of this, but your point about Europe using this lapse in U.S. soft power to make a move is salient. I'm a little bit worried about the rise of fascism in Europe though, doesn't NATO-skepticism go hand-in-hand with Euro-skepticism? It feels just as likely that "Europe going alone" ends with a lot of nations going toward isolationary policies.