We shall see. I hope for the best outcome for the West.
The best outcome for the west is for Putin to get enough pain that he and his club don’t think of expanding the war.
Think of it as if the UK and France gave weapons to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the Czechoslovaks gave the Germans a black eye. That would put much of WWII off, save the Brits and FRench millions of lives and billions of bullion