Ben Norton from Geopolitical Economy Report talks about how the EU is becoming a vassal to the US by de-industrializing itself, and how the US, in order to stabilize inflation is "creating jobs" by reindustrializing in the military sector. So it seems to me that the entire US-led contrivance of expanding NATO eastward past Russia's "red lines" (which began under Bush in 2008 to the chagrin of France and other NATO members) was always a deliberate effort to destabilize eastern Europe, and create more wars to profit from. Of course liberals will never absorb this information and will see everything in terms of the US being some kind of global forecfield protecting democracy from some vague illiberal "authoritarian despotism" and various brown/yellow perils they've dreamed up.