And on the North American side, many of us are willing to sacrifice and pressure our governments to make up some of that as well so that you are shouldering it alone.
Also as a European, is still remember as certain "fuck the Europeans" uttered by the neocons of your government when the Europeans warned that regime changing the Ukraine would maybe make the Russians feel threatened.
Europe has to find its own stance and mechanisms to counter Putin. It's pretty clear that neither the European way (economic integration) nor the US way (forever treating like an enemy) worked.