Meanwhile the EU continues to fund the Russian war machine by relying on their greatest enemy for their energy needs, despite being told years ago this would end in tears. Their Answer? Nordstream 2. Now that went well. Even the German president with surprising candor admitted Frau Merkel fucked it up. How they couldn't see that when blind freddie could is a mystery and a monumental fuck up. Meanwhile they will have to deal with Vlads mate, an even more powerful recalcitrant Orban. A stone in the EU shoe. Then there is pro Russian Serbia waiting to join, along with a few other dirt poor eastern european countries that will be even more of a drain on EU finances, no doubt accompanied by an increase in civil/public servant parasites..