Wild speculation that an empire is empiring.

Not absolving the west of the blame, but Russia is not this sentinel standing against the globalist project, it’s part of it.

This is Palpatine playing both sides of the conflict.

The Cold War was fake, it was mostly a calculated chess game until the Soviet Union happened to collapse. Americans were equally, if not more, interested in subjugating Europe so it becomes a vassal state that never acted without the blessing of Washington.