Yeah. I hope you didn't take that as a serious question.

I feel that behind the mask there's just a reality that is simply 'business friends group 1 and 2'. Both say they have moral high ground and throw shit at each other.

People who see things with slightly more nuance get lambasted for not being patriotic enough or simply not hating the enemy enough, and the media churns out rhetoric but never elude to the consortium of interests on both sides of the equation.

The UK (with other 'Western' nations) gets more shit flung at it these days because of its collective colonialist history. Nothing new there, I doubt Mongolian nomadic tribes were very popular when they raped and pillaged from China to Europe.

The US/NATO axis gets shit flung at it for obvious transgressions. PR.China claims that there is too much anti-Chinese sentiment in the world. Why, China is an angel. No? Russia, via Putin is the evil arch-villain we all must hate with scorn and derision.

One thing that is abundantly clear to me, from the Baltic to The Straits of Gibraltar, Europe gets pummeled by Business group 1 and Business group 2's shit throwing contest. Not to say that Europe is without it's own faults. I guess similar to an independent state like Taiwan, a superstate like the EU, tries it's best to navigate the conflict but is stuck in the middle regardless.

Some might say that in these situations the game is to play both sides. I think that's disingenuous. When you are relatively less powerful body nestled between larger opposing forces, you bend to the wind.