Does a perceived loose cannon leader actually bring more world peace?

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The Ukraine invasion has me thinking about Trump’s January 2020 assassination of Iran general Soleimani. At the time I’d seen it as a reckless murder, which it is, but now I wonder how the world viewed it. It was a brazen killing of a sovereign nation’s military general, but it did send a message to the world: Trump could very well have you killed, no matter who you are. Trump’s perceived willingness to actually pull the trigger paradoxically led to more peace. No one wanted to cross him. Trump was aggressive, arrogant, and pitiless. As offensive as these traits may be, it might be better for national security for your national leader to have them.

It’s not our fight

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Tragic, the events unfolding in Ukraine. Russia appears intent on taking the entirety of the nation, rather than a few small chunks. But it’s not our fight, it’s not worth the lives of Westerners to intervene. Would this have happened under Trump? I have a feeling that it wouldn’t have. Biden is perceived as weak, indecisive, elderly. This is an extremely dangerous perception.

My dismal prediction: The response by the West to Russia’s military incursion will be far worse than the incursion itself. NATO will be forced to act, Germany’s Russian natural gas will be cut off, and so on. You can see how this will spiral very shortly into something very bad.