You have the Oligarch rich's strategy of keeping the wealth of the nation in the hands of the scheming rich. This is Putin and Russian Oligarch cronies. So their conquest plans can achieve. They have the money, they have the political "power". Only after the mission is a success and these have their grand empire, can the peasants from those aggressor nations be wealthy.
This is why Europe needs to re-arm.
America is different, they are the self-impose uni-polar leaders of the globe. They require the perception of "economic superpower".
When America tells their public that minorities are bad, leftists are bad, unhealthy additives are bad, and so on - when the masses are not duped by the FDA that HFCS is healthy. When cancer cures are revealed by the government, and Washington wants high wages to Anglo-American workers, then you know that 1984 is near. 1984 has to be sold as an age of luciferian light. A deception. A trade off, the Republican deepstate reveals health secrets and the masses believe this is a "era of freedom". To then say, you cannot question the entrenched oligarchs because money is stuffed in your mouth and to question the oligarch class, you lose your material fortune. That is the path that Trump wants the USA on.
Russia is already a 1984 state, slightly different strategy from the US, they want empire to shift the misery of Russians onto Europeans, and import the success of Germans to Russians. If this replacement theology does not frighten Europeans to re-arm, also arming making nukes. Then they need more convincing.