It didn't take a generation for Europe to rebuild relationships with Germany after WWI or WWII. And at some point the frantic propaganda of "Russia is just going to invade everybody if we don't destroy them now!" will fail to materialize.

Europe has been the biggest casualty of the war without a doubt. On the other hand BRICS strengthened significantly, and now there's a whole alternate global economy forming that's outside of US control. It's entirely possible that the mood in Europe could turn against the US as well.

We started this one?

Fuck! Here we thought it was Russia trying to take over Ukraine

if so called sensible neoliberal monsters refuse to engage with reality, they're leaving the playing field open to even worse ghouls.

perhaps they should poke their head out of their ideology bunker and look at what's really going on.

You have correctly identified the contradiction however need to work a little bit on resolving it.