Given the extent to which Europe, with the US goading it, has gone to war with their primary source of energy and pushed all of Asia into the same corner, meanwhile being flooded with refugees from all the previous misadventures they willingly went along with, its not like Europe doesn't appear to be a sinking ship as well.

Wait until the lot of very well armed, extremely pissed off Ukrainians realize they were never more than a tethered goat, to poke the bear. That resistance campaign the neocons were hoping for, might just be the usual blowback of their prior brilliant ideas. Not attacking the Russians, but taking it out on Europe.

Man the lifeboats.