Europe’s entire economy hinges on American hegemony. EU is literally unable to decouple from the US without completely restructuring its entire economy and political structure.
To be fair, Europe was starting to get integrated with the east economically. Germany had cheap energy from Russia, and China was a huge market. If things kept going the way they were, eventually the US grip on Europe would loosen as a result. Hence why we had to have a war in Ukraine.
TBH, I don’t think “turning Eastern Europe and Russia into an extraction semicolony for the EU” can be considered a good development. Of course, we then had an even worse development.
Yeah, Russia was turning into a raw materials exporter for the EU which definitely wasn’t great for them. In the end, things worked out a lot better for Russia than Europe. They now have reliable partners in the Global South who aren’t trying to destroy them, and the war forced Russia to start industrializing again and developing an actual economy.
