The press keeps insisting Russia is preparing to invade all of Europe as if Putin wakes up every morning dreaming about inheriting Germany's industrial collapse and France's pension protests.

The propaganda has become so absurd that perhaps we should finally discuss the REAL reasons Russia would supposedly invade Europe:

1. To acquire Germany's energy policy expertise and finally learn how to shut down functioning nuclear plants while importing expensive energy from everyone else.

2. To seize Britain's world-renowned knife-control strategy where criminals ignore the laws while grandmothers get arrested over tweets.

3. To capture France's revolutionary spirit, which now mostly consists of setting garbage piles on fire and blocking highways every few months over retirement age increases.

4. To inherit the European Union's debt structure because apparently Russia looked at its own sanctions and recession risks and thought, "You know what we really need? Italian debt too."

5. To revive the Dutch tulip market and reignite the original speculative bubble. At least tulips are tangible unlike modern sovereign bonds.

6. To gain control over Europe's magnificent demographic strategy where birth rates collapse while governments debate banning gas stoves and regulating pronouns.

7. To seize all of Switzerland's chocolates, since they've already soured their offshore banking.

8. To experience the thrill of open borders and historic levels of crime in culturally enriched cities.

9. To inherit Europe's university system where students graduate with debt, activism experience, and no employable skills whatsoever.

10. To inherit Europe's industrial competitiveness, which now largely consists of closing factories and importing products from China while lecturing everyone about carbon emissions.

11. To govern government's government by overtaking the European Commission.

12. To take control of the ECB's brilliant strategy of printing trillions while pretending inflation was "transitory."

13. To secure Europe's military stockpiles, assuming they can locate them first.

14. To acquire London real estate prices so inflated they make Manhattan look reasonable.

15. To learn from Brussels how to regulate artificial intelligence before figuring out how to generate reliable electricity.