They sure did enjoy all of those handouts we gave them with the Marshall Plan. It's not as though half of Europe has been annexed by Russia this time around. The best they have is Belarus, which is already firmly in their camp, regardless of whether or not there is a second cold war. All former Warsaw Pact and Soviet states that are members of NATO will be safe, thanks to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
The Rapacki Plan was opposed by Europeans, as well as Americans. It completely went against everything West Germany stood for, as they didn't even recognize the DDR. Plus the plan was crazy, as "demilitarizing" West Germany would leave them defenseless against the Soviet Union. The Warsaw Pact wasn't the main threat, the Soviet Union was.
Uk and west Germany were against it, right, but at least Germany (and I guess the same applies to UK) were US fanboys at the time and would have done the same thing as the US.
I can't disagree with your first point, but certainly the impact of such actions was different in the cold war then it is now.