

Yes this is absolutely about siphoning wealth into the USA and creating austerity conditions for 2 reasons:
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The bourgeoisie needs to maintain concentration flows and the US is preparing for some of the flows to be constrainee by BRICS. Europe represents a source they can extract from.
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The working class in Europe is too comfortable to go to war and are more likely to demand peaceful relationships with Russia and China which will isolate the USA. Having Europe under austerity creates the conditions for larger reactionary movements that can be used by the US to fight more hot proxy conflicts in an attempt to slow down BRICS economically and an attempt to create conditions for military and political error on the part of the anti-imperialist which the USA hopes to be able to exploit to create a rapidly cascading collapse of resistance.
Smooth-brain take. Russia has neither the means nor the intention to invade, occupy, and Russify Europe. You are projecting English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese crimes against humanity onto your ideological opponents.
It’s ridiculous that people like you think that Russia is the one being appeased. The USA is being appeased and has been since the end of WW2. The appeasement of the USA is appeasement 2.0 - from their atrocities in Vietnam, Laos, and Korea to their atrocities in the Pacific to their atrocities in “Latin America” to their atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, to their outright torture of people all over the world to their oppression of people at home to their having the highest rate of imprisonment in the world to their economic bullying of the poor all over the world to their collective punishment in Cuba, Venezuela, and many other places.
Everyone has been appeasing the USA.