You’ll be paying a lot more in the years to come if China, Russia and Iran aren’t held in check now, and all it takes is spending a relatively small amount of cash to ensure Russia is humiliated and therefore dissuaded from using military force in future.
Only reason the Houthis have dared to effectively close the Suez canal to shipping is because they’ve been emboldened by American weakness. That alone is costing the economy untold billions and it gets worse the longer it goes on.