I mean my god they seem absolutely committed to driving us all off a cliff to hang on to their already-collapsing hegemony. Is there literally anything short of getting their teeth kicked in by a nuclear launch that could convince the leaders of "the free world" to once, just fucking once, willingly take the L?
I don't want to die in the opening cutscene of a Fallout game because whoever the hell is in charge of Germany these days decided to get into a pissing match with fucking Putin of all people.
Who else though? Do we just pick a champion who will make these decisions that ends up causing a lot of suffering and then say: ‘I’m not him so not my fault’. You either are partially responsible for picking them, or for not getting rid of them when it turned sour