Its pretty watching watching Europeans and western vassals out themselves as cowards here. They keep saying how Russia is weak and evil and how they will handle Russia on their own. Then when Trump say cool they start screeching like hysterical women you see on reality TV. This isn't the middle ages where they are aristocrats who can demand peasants to die for them.
Learn to take responsibility already ffs.
Europe taking on Russia alone from now on is a win-win for everyone. It lets China focus on taking down and collapsing the US alone with peace of mind and fewer distractions, without Europeans being able to meddle even in theory.
Russia is all for this too because they stand to rise to unprecedented heights if China manages to collapse the US soon under those easier conditions, since it just helped lift some of the pressure off China’s back. The US gets some space for more tax cuts for the oligarchs and more money to help Israel in the short term, now that the Ukraine money pipeline gets cut off.
The EU gets a bit of proto-autonomy for a while too and a chance to get slightly better prepared for the post-US world, when they eventually drift back to their natural historical state of fragmentation and lower living standards.
Everyone wins based on their pre-defined goals. It’s just that the Western goals are way more clownish than the Sino-Russian ones. The EU’s goals are basically just about preserving a decently sized Ukraine long-term as a buffer zone against Russia.
Think about it, If you’re Baltics or Poland or Finland, for example, you don’t even want the theoretical possibility of being invaded by Russia. And if you’re Germany, which benefits the most from EU integration, you don’t want all of poorer Eastern Europe falling back under the Russian camp through coercion. That's why you go along with their delusions for now.
Also, just to be clear, there’s no way that even up until the medium term, Europeans can successfully arm Ukraine alone against Russia in place of the US. That’s exactly why there’s now a real need for a ceasefire and a full rearmament of Europe, which will take time. But Europeans will soon also agree to that too
once they realize Trump is actually serious about all of this.