Russia isn't going along with it.

I think it was the plan all along. The most important issue according to the west is climate change. Ask any higher educated westerner, or chatgpt. It's the perfect global problem that requires global solutions and global effort. The west knew it was going to lose its ability to keep everyone under it's thumb. This allows the west to keep everyone under them by simply not allowing them to develop. Everything about your quality of life is directly linked to cheap and abundant energy. Fuck off global warming alarmists.