Exactly, that is what the EU should be doing too. Join BRICS, play both sides and win two ways.

Leaving NATO is the next step. Reducing the US pact of aggression to the 5-eyes Anglo-sphere. Until one day there too their populations will start realising what evil and greed* is being committed in their names, with their money and at the cost of their prosperity.

* https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/09/16/senator-lindsey-graham-ukraine-trillion-minerals/