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I completely disagree. Ukrainian war effort is primarily driven by the desire of majority of Ukrainian population to keep their independence and align with the western democratic sphere. It is, effectively, a drawn out war for independence dragging out for over 2 decades, which only became "hot" with the Russian invasions 10 and 3 years ago, the latter of which was aimed at outright annexation of the entire Ukrainian state. Majority of European countries in existence today are nation states, many not even of a few decades old, created through the will of their populations to shed blood for their independence. One would have to be shockingly ignorant to conclude that people wouldn't fight for for their state since they would "keep living largely the same lives as before", when recent wars in the Balkans closely mirror the Ukrainian conflict and yet resulted in 7 independent states, many of which received paltry, or no foreign support during their struggle for independence. Such mentality might've been prevalent in the middle ages, but has certainly been erased by 1848.

Remember that the Russian aggression effectively started a decade ago after several successive country-wide popular uprisings in Ukraine which, despite violent crackdowns, strived for and put the country on the path towards democracy, westernization and reduction of oligarchic and Russian influence. Without wide popular support, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and a large proportion of the population involved in the war effort would be just as, if not more, likely to turn on their own government. As a matter of fact, this is exactly what the Russians expected on the eve of their invasion, when the Ukrainian state was supposed to fold as a stack of cards and the Ukrainian people were supposed to accept their "liberators" without a hitch. Instead, Russia was instantly bogged down and pushed back by a determined popular resistance and a massive popular mobilization and the Ukrainian people are determined to keep fighting even after massive destruction of their infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Of course, the reasons for the foreign involvement in the war have much more ominous undertones and, especially in the case of the US, geopolitics are a major factor. However, one would have to be extremely misguided to pretend that motivations of the amorphous US political apparatus reflect the motivations of the Ukrainian (or even American) people in any way.