A myopic treatise that ignores entirely what the European Union has become.
In any military conflict in which one might become involved you would have to be pretty damned stupid not to consider the motivations and direction of all the parties involved.
Who and what the EU is today is every bit as relevant here as who the Ukrainians and Russians are.
Well, number one, they receive all the natural gas they rely on for heating from Russia. Since Germany has decided to close all their nuclear power plants, they would freeze if Russia cut them off.