You know, the western European disarray is actually probably helpful in winding up the war, as there's less of a monolithic threat, but the mad-genius, never-happen way out of the mess is a redux of the Visegrad group as a defensive alliance (perhaps plus one or two). It seems mad given the current polarization, but these are the lighthouses in the shadows of the east, and their polarized alliances, in every case, are severally calculated to hold off the more potent threat in each geographic case. #notexpert #possiblyquitemad
