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Vibes-wise, in my circles at least:
Russia sucks. No one likes Putin, no one thinks they're "in the right" in terms of casus belli and such. Public opinion still prefers Ukraine of the two.
That being said, people don't really like Ukraine as a standalone country. They support them in the war against Russia but they aren't otherwise pro-Ukraine. It's a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation - we don't like Russia, they're fighting Russia, so we support them. In many ways they're the European equivalent of the mujahideen, just with a more-visible cause and leadership. No one would support American boots on the ground.
The Nazis argument Russia keeps trying to stick won't work, because people know Zelenskyy is a Jew and "Nazis=Jew Haters" is ingrained to Americans (at least where I'm from) from at least middle school and quite possibly elementary school. Obviously no Jew would be a Nazi.
I think anyone who has even remotely paid attention to the war knows that Ukraine can't really win it. Just in general people know that Russia is bigger, and the bigger side usually wins. The best Ukraine can hope to do is not totally lose - any victory condition of getting the Russians totally out of the pre-war borders are a fantasy, and anyone who looks at a map knows that Putin's a dick and Russia in generally is not known for being generous with conquered territories (see the Iron Curtain); Ukraine isn't getting that back. They're eventually going to lose the war as it stands. They have to be the side that gives up concessions if they want the fighting to end; why would Putin give stuff back when he's going to win the damn war? Logically Ukraine is going to have to give more than Russia will, because there's less incentive for Russia to end the war. If Zelenskyy is seen to be asking for obviously unacceptable conditions, people won't continue to back supporting them indefinitely if it becomes obvious they're throwing it away on impossible goals.
People aren't against Europe as a whole, or the alliances. We share way more cultural (and linguistic) values with them than with the alternative alliance partners. Russia we still don't like due to the Cold War, and people know China is if not the #1 country on the evil countries to worry about list, it is at worst #2.
People don't consider Europe as a particularly effective or particularly independent fighting force; if we were engaged in a large-scale conflict they would be looked at as smaller/less important than any individual branch of the US military. If push ever really came to shove it's expected that those militaries would shut up and get in line considering how much they rely on our support.
Many people do think Europe has been extremely lax with their militaries since at least the Soviets fell, and just expected the US to do the work if they were ever in trouble. The best-case scenario right now would be the Europeans take this saber-rattling as a wake-up call when they look around at their militaries and realize how weak they've become.
Some people think that the US should instead follow their lead and stop investing in our military to bolster domestic policies, but those people are morons.In general Europe is looked at as a great vacation spot, and full of history, but also (for lack of a better term) kinda gay. They can do the soft cultural stuff really well, but when it comes to any actual "work" Americans are just way better, with the Germans probably being the best of a poor crop out of the Euros in this regard (though CoD makes some think the Brits aren't completely useless).
Note that Europe in this context generally means Western Europe primarily, in general anything from Germany down to Italy and west, plus the Nordics (very few people could tell any differences between those cultures right now, even Finland - most wouldn't even know they have mandatory conscription, considering the only models ever cited for that are Israel and South Korea). Eastern Europeans generally have an almost reversed opinion - pretty trash culturally (no one's going to a Bulgarian restaurant), and the people are backwards, but could possibly do solid work if there were more of them.
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