Well you see Europeans, being a lower, degenerated form of white people (like the German Shepherds with the fucked up back legs) are very retarded and are prone to political and strategic blunders and miscalculations and delusions of relevance, importance, sovereignty and national prestige. It does not help that many of them are stuck in the Cold War AND have the most persuasive agents of the Kievan Kabal whispering in their ears. In short, Europeans are retarded, genuinely believe their own bullshit, have a pathological hatred of Russia and have chained themselves to a gang of corrupt politicians and Nazi larpers who are determined to set all their money and military equipment on fire before throwing it into the black hole that is the Donetsk front.