WHY IS NOBODY SENDING MILITARY TO JUST GET THEM OUT? They are all waiting for Russians to move past Ukraine. Can someone Educate me as to why they're waiting for this war to spread rather than act now? Why are they letting them take Ukraine so easily? Sanctions have not and will not do anything to deter them. Ukrainians are speaking out about needing help, why is everyone else just sitting sipping tea and watching them take more lives?
Unfortunately it's not so straight forward. Sending in NATO troops to defend a non-NATO country would be viewed as an extreme act of aggression. And in the case where you're dealing with a dictator with a red button, that's not a good idea for anyone on this planet.
In lieu of immediately turning things up to 11, NATO countries are offering support in other ways. Relief and aid, taking in refugees, staging their military forces in neighboring NATO countries (if you attack a NATO country, you attack them all and all bets are off). For example, the US has given Ukraine state of the art weapons to help them defend themselves and is pledging to send more. Side note, it's that military aid (in the form of weapons) that Trump tried to use as leverage back when he was still president. He wanted to withhold the promised support unless Ukraine helped dig up dirt on Biden. Pretty disgraceful but I digress.
So basically the plan is to bolster Ukraine's fighting forces and citizens to the extent that they can fend off the Russian troops while also sanctioning the sh*t out of things to increase pressure and make this maneuver impossible or futile or at the very least too costly for Putin to continue. I hope it's enough and I pray it works.