The handling of the Ukraine special operation and invasion of Russia by the EU has convinced me that these political elites have totally sold out the European sovereignty in exchange for security and economic interdependence with the U.S.
The decision was made in large part because of the unfortunate racist belief and biased against Russian supposed malevolence, revanchist and desire to supposedly re-established the glory of the Soviet empire. Then you have an absolute behemoth of an economic competitor that's not only alien to most Europeans in terms of culture, language, religion, and most of all political system.
The fact that China is being run by the "Communist" (which often invokes the dreaded past of Communism in Europe) makes it easier for the useless political bums in EU to demonize China, weaken the political leaders that have pragmatic views of the country which then hold more sway to the vast swathe of EU citizens who are just as racist if not more so compared to their American counterparts. As a result, we have political leaders leading Europe that are utterly clueless when it comes to picking the right strategic approach with China. They simply copy and paste the American formula with a much crappies result because they still somehow stupidly hold the arrogant views that they are coming from the position of strength.
I wasn't aware that Ursula Von Der lying alot and Michel (he/she/me/we) have a massive standing Army, Airforce, Navy, Space Command under their command. Europeans must learn to live with their new reality that what they thought was their eden was a jungle all along, populated by Americans, Russians, and increasingly the Chinese.