This is for the most part solid analysis but the argument falls apart when they mention “a decapitated Russia”. That may have been their intention and their hope at the start but at this point that is not looking even remotely possible to achieve. This has been a massive miscalculation by Europe which will come out as the biggest loser in this whole geopolitical confrontation, because the US will make sure that its losses are transferred onto Europe. Europe being in the subordinate position will see its wealth siphoned off to the US so that the US can slow down its own precipitous decline as the stream of plunder which the Western imperialist system was accustomed to extracting out of the global south is slowly but surely drying up. BRICS+ and China’s Belt and Road Initiative are visibly shattering the West’s neo-colonial global dominance and more and more countries will start seeing which way the wind is blowing.