This actually reminds me of Voltaire's famous quote "one must cultivate one's own garden" i.e. one must focus on improving one's own little world without worrying too much about the outside world if one wants peace of mind and self-development.
Instead, today's Europeans pursue Borrell's "we are a garden and the rest of the world is a jungle" philosophy where they focus less on self-improvement and more on controlling and subjugating the outside "jungle".
Not just today. Europeans have been pursuing colonial subjugation of the rest of the world for centuries. Ever since Voltaire's time, in fact, and arguably even earlier. If you take a step back, Indo-Europeans are one of the most expansionist cultures in the history of humanity. They've been mass colonizing ever since their ancestors left the Pontic-Caspian steppe around 5,500 years ago. Their first victims were the natives of Neolithic Europe, where they displaced/exterminated the local men and took the women, and India, where they created the caste system with themselves at the top.
Subsequent Indo-European waves included Alexander's conquests in West Asia, the Roman Empire, and the various Persian empires, all of which followed the same basic pattern, but they became largely contained on land due to two factors: 1. the rise of Asian nomads like the Turkic and Mongolic empires, which defeated and drove them out of the steppe and 2. the constant competition from Semitic peoples, especially the Arabs, who basically kept both the Persians and the Europeans proper in check. Gradual divisions within the Indo-European sphere, especially between the kingdoms of Europe and that of Persia, further weakened their expansion.
Unfortunately, they found a way out of this land based containment about 500 years ago with the rise of the great trading empires of the Mediterranean. That, along with the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, started them off on their second great migration, the result of which we are all aware of and live in the shadow of, today. The rest of the world really can't afford a third great Indo-European migration, but as it is, geopolitics necessitates working with certain Indo-European groups against others, because they've taken over so much of the world that you can't really afford to say you're going to make enemies out of all of them any more.
