I think this is going to be seen as similar to the Suez Crisis in 1956. At that time, France and the UK were still mostly considered to be Great Powers (they were on the winning side of WWII, right?) So, when a pipsqueak named Nasser from a nowhere place like Egypt tried to talk tough, it was obvious that France and the UK would dominate the situation, right? Well, when Eisenhower declined to participate, the world found out that France and the UK were paper tigers. Weak. Egypt beat them both.
Today, there is the sense that Europe, as a whole, can prop up Ukraine. But they can’t. Without Trump, Ukraine has nothing. The whole continent of Europe has fallen into darkness and weakness and everybody knows it. Weak and decadent.
Europe still views us as their ‘colony’. Always have. The Globalists have always relied on that premise.