It is increasingly clear that the US vision on Europe is pretty much comparable to how the Kremlin and associated oligarchy perceive neighboring countries. Nothing more than resource pools to be exploited.

There is a slippery slope from 'good business requires killing competition' to the 'might makes right' thinking, which you can openly hear from the mouths of the current administration. That is also why you wouldn't hear about the tens of thousands Ukrainian kids being kidnapped and brainwashed but instead see them repeatedly berating the victim; it isn't 'holding cards' and as such should just surrender to raping savages.

The worst that could happen now would be if the public gets distracted from the nature of this beast. And unfortunately, it isn't named 'Trump'. It's way bigger, way more pervasive than the distractor in (optical) command.

There is no way Europe can have their intel and general communication being grabbed by the likes of Musk, Thiel and Miller. The longer Europe waits, the more difficult it gets (think consumer backlash). For those who paid attention, the war on Europe didn't start kinetically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915567