Nobody, anywhere, looks at Europe and thinks they want to follow that path economically, culturally, etc.
The entire problem is that western banks were pushing the idea of making Russia another administrative district of the globalism project.
They preferred to be a nation state trading with others, but retaining sovereignty.
There is a reason that Trump and Putin are the two most hated men by the international establishment. They both favor rational nationalism over the global government being constructed.
LOL, I’d be more worried if Brezhnev’s popularity went up.