That European leaders have chosen to break with the USA on Ukraine policy shows that they as NATO members were doing nothing more than EU Eastward expansion. For them the US government was a pliable tool paying for their policy. They could have peace yet they want to continue war.
Russia is no conventional weapons threat to European NATO when the United States back them up. There is no reason or Europe to break with the USA and potentially splinter NATO except for pure greed for land and resources in Ukraine that should rightly be shared with Russia.
After the end of the Cold War the European Union gelled from the European Community. Unlike the EC the EU has become swollen enough with pride and power that they still regard Russia as weak enough to plunder its traditional Ukraine real estate. The properties are so listed for that France and other European nations would prefer policy disagreement with America and finance the Ukraine war on its own. If Europe attacks Russia and some day Russia nukes a few cities in Europe in order to defend itself it is possible the United States would not get involved. Instead of collective peace and security Europe uses lame excuses about Russian risk to invade far western Europe as an excuse to finance their war of expansion throughout the borderlands of Russia.
The rational course for Europe would be to settle the Ukraine war in Ukraine peacefully and directly and conserve solid relations with the United States. Otherwise Europe may need to completely rearm itself for a suicidal nuclear war with Russia that can’t be fought. Even if a European,- Russian arms race drafts in the rest of the world to build bigger, faster and better nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than have ever gone before that is a very stupid policy direction.
