That's a very good analysis, really.
Putin's alliance with Germany and France is anti-EU, that's the point many people don't understand yet.
Though I don't see why it's wrong exactly. How being subservient to Brussels is actually better than to Paris, Berlin and Moscow?
Do you recall how France wanted the EU Constitution to be written? Even though the leadership (or lack thereof) of the EU rotates, they wanted it in the Constitution that France be given authority over foreign affairs on behalf of the EU. They tried to justify this by the fact that the EU isn't a government and so one unified head was necessary to guide foreign affairs for the whole.
It didn't fly.