Terrified?

I see much more cooperation now to say: "it's enough." Merkel led Germany always preferred trade before blaming. Increase trade with a malicious actor and it will work out in the end.

There's a huge shift currently happening and if you didn't realize it yet. The position of Putin was one of weakness, not of strength and the west knows this.

And it's not a proxy war, Russia is literally invading a country.

Ukraine doesn't prefer the Russian model to keep people poor and stupid, so they wouldn't protest.