Many things are still unclear at the current level of knowledge, but we can certainly see how the pandemic rhetoric of the EU has changed with the war rhetoric of Russia in Ukraine, however, there is an increase in new cases of coronavirus and its effects are still present. In China, a very severe lockdown can be seen again, while in the EU almost all restrictions have been lifted since the beginning of March.
As Jeremy Friedman rightly points out in his article “The Revolutionary Roots of Russian Foreign Policy” - “Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its independence from the West.” , the same can be said for the European Union, which at the same time wants a deeper alliance with the United States, and on the other hand, independence from the American continent and rapprochement with Russia. Thus, we can see how the external factor, namely the United States, plays an important role between the EU and Russia, and between Russia and the EU.