Even now Europe could enact a "Marshall plan 2.0" for West Ukraine but this is from an idealist perspective not a materialist one - the original one was to stave off domestic socialist revolutions and explicitly stated to stop the spread of communism in West Europe from the perceived socialist threat of the USSR, no equivalent pressure exists at present - the PCR having learned the mistakes from the USSR of overleaveraging socialism abroad have taken a more nuanced foreign policy with an eye on long term win of international socialism.

Furthermore the vassalisation of Europe was only in the early stages during the Marshall plan, and NATO was still in its infancy as a vehicle for the USAmerican military indsutrial complex outside the US at that time. Now there appears not even the pretence of sovereignity at times with European leaders.

And Europe's domestic productive capacity and imperialist leverage abroad have both been gutted increasing the tendancy of the above vassalisation and subordination to deepen while they cling on to their idealist-"garden" against the foreign materialist-"jungle".

Your essays as usual are on point. Well done and well written!