There are attacks on info outlets as well, bots are mass reporting Ukranian youtube channels that have been reporting on the war, getting them perma banned despite Youtube basically acknowledging to the owners that it's bot spam.
If Ukraine lost it wouldn't just be a massive blow to Ukraine itself, it would severely undermine the credibility of NATO countries and western allies generally.
The population of Ukraine is 38 million people. Putin would march every damn one of those Ukrainian civilians in as meat waves invading other countries and not care one damn.
Also, just because Ukraine loses the traditional war, doesn't mean that the fighting will stop.
Also also, what greater threat to european peace and stability is there than a bunch of former allies, who are battle-hardened, traumatized, right next to EU borders and are feeling betrayed by their 'western partners'?
A russia-funded network of right-wing parties, aimed at breaking up the european union, recently invigorated by their success of stopping a unified response to russia's invasion.
Any country not in NATO is at risk. Russia wouldn't invade a NATO country. They'd get shit stomped and honestly probably have to resort to a nuclear weapon.
I think the West would cut the head off the snake pretty quickly if Russia invaded a NATO country though.
Also also, what greater threat to european peace and stability is there than a bunch of former allies, who are battle-hardened, traumatized, right next to EU borders and are feeling betrayed by their 'western partners'?
Assuming you're talking about the Ukrainian people in some kind of Guerilla warfare, I think they'd be more likely to focus their efforts on Russia (the ones that actually did the attacking, raping, and bombing) vs the west that just "didn't do enough"