I believe that the hostility between the West and Russia is mutual, so I see no difference between one and the other, both only think of one thing: the supremacy of one over the other.
Beyond the position on Ukraine, the truth is that the European mistake was not to apply its own strategy to confront Russia, on the contrary, the whole strategic design comes from the USA and as you will see this last country only applies strategies according to its own interests.
So Russia has secured a magnificent market in Asia, India gains a large energy supplier for a population that triples that of Europe, while the latter has not yet defined a real independent energy policy of its own.
For me it is a tremendous hypocrisy to consider the very polluting nuclear energy as "clean" when before this energy crisis it was on the list of the greens as "not suitable for the environment". I wonder, with the proliferation of nuclear plants from where will Europe get its uranium supplies and another thing, where will they continue to hide the tons of radioactive waste generated by these "clean" power plants?
On the other hand, the USA needs markets for its expensive gas, since Russia has already secured China and India, where half the population of the planet lives, so if it requires Europe to become dependent on this energy source, it will certainly do so, therefore only the old continent has the last answer: to continue as a laboratory rat of the USA and Russia or to apply independent policies and strategies in order to carry out its own interests? That is the question.