> Our leaders are to blame for going on with this imbalance of leverage for so long and not taking measures or backups despite the US warning us Power of europ

> Our leaders are to blame for going on with this imbalance of leverage for so long and not taking measures or backups despite the US warning us Power of european leaders comes from european citizens, not from US (at least on paper). Blame the european citizens, that they wanted to have good relations with Russia... no this does not work either. Many people did not believe Putin would invade, or did not want to preempt him. Now that we have the proof of treachery, working with/appeasing Russia became dangerous and only now we have a incontrovertible reason to disconnect from it. But before the invasion, it was not so clear that being on good terms with Russia was bad.