Actually the Europeans are also afraid of losing their global standing without riding on the coat-tails of the USA. This is also their only chance at self preservation, using the USA's unipolar hegemony to maintain the Anglo Saxon Whites dominance. But like Little Britain, the decline cannot be stopped.
Therefore, whatever the USA tells them to do, they have to follow. The downfall of the US$ hegemony, and with it the USA military power, means the fall of the Anglo Saxon global domination will deflate going forward. And they are petrified of that happening. They therefore have to support the USA's agenda, whatever it takes, even to the extent of sacrificing themselves. What have the Europeans gained so far in Ukraine? Nothing other than cutting their noses to spite their faces to please the USA.However, it may be an exercise in futility trying to prevent the changing of the global geopolitical order from a unipolar to a multipolar world. The West already lost the Global South, after years of blatant neglect in Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Now Central America is slowly moving away from USA's sphere of influence as well. Mexico just joined BRICS and Honduras just dumped Taiwan for China.
The USA and the West are trying desperately to regain their influence in the Global South. But it is too little too late. The Africans can no longer be fooled, with many wise leaders rising through the ranks to take over. Those leaders learned their lesson from the past and refused to be lured into demonising China, the usual narrative touched upon by Western leaders each and every time they visited any African country.