Max,

No one is happy forever.

That Russia manages to function as a state over a territory larger than Europe certainly has the Europeans jealous.

I go into that in my essay on the rise and fall of the Western Mind, that you read and commented on, that Western thought is very node oriented, while Eastern thought recognizes both sides of the coin, nodes and networks, because they don't have those moderately sized states, formed within natural geographic boundaries and had to evolve in more fluid political relationships, across those steppes.

It is quite evident Europe is avoiding a coming reality, where they are no longer the center of the world civilization and it is going to resemble a psychotic breakdown.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2