The Ukranians are a very tough people, and their Polish/Romanian/etc neighbors are doing wonderful things, literally waiting at the border to pick up refugees who aren't even there yet. And how about this thread. Lotsa love for everyone affected, cut there's more to it than that. There's another reason for all the vehemence. The reason?
Everyone in the free World REALLY hates Russia. The eastern Europeans who have been crapped on by Russia for 400 years, the >40 year old Americans who remember the fear we had for the USSR. To a large degree, this is catharsis for all of that...and that's awesome.
Also, let's give the US and western Europe some credit. This is by far the most we've ever done to protect eastern Europe. Should we have been better prepared? Probably. Do we need to do more? Definitely. But we aren't letting an Iron Curtain descend. At least not let.
Some other good things:
1) Our intelligence community is playing lights out. Getting, then broadcasting, Russian intentions in nearly real time. There's no question in my mind that we've forced them to change time tables.
2) Protests in Russia again today. Everyone arrested is likely headed to the Gulag or a bullet, and they don't mind. Who would have predicted that 2 weeks ago?
3) Eastern European countries are literally delivering weapons to the Ukraine. As I said above, they're placing themselves in Putin's crosshairs, and they don't mind. Just like the protestors, they don't mind. In the US, our children are gonna sleep in warm beds tonight. Polish parents are gonna put their kids to bed and wonder if they are the next country Putin invades.
4) The World community is coalescing, for the most part. Yeah there's fighting over carve-outs. We haven't siezed all the Oligarchs' yachts and sugarbabies. And Germany is making themselves pariahs. But still, there's so much unity. And even China might join in. Again, 2 weeks ago did you ever think Xi would ghost Putin.
It's gonna get worse before it gets better. But let's all take a breath and appreciate what we're doing RIGHT.