For those pondering what may come to pass with this, here's something to add in the hopper.

The military analyst Scott Ritter noted that for all intents and purposes, Russia has already fought a NATO army, one of the largest in Europe. Over the 8 years since 2014, the UAF was trained to NATO standards, and was fully interoperable with NATO forces. The Ukrainians are also said to be fighting as skillfully and bravely as may be expected.

Recall also that Ukraine is fighting with tremendous amounts of weaponry and resources funneled in from all across NATO. But if NATO goes to war, what would be the external sources? The US has drained a lot of weapons stocks dry already.

You can choose to believe the mainstream sources as to the state of affairs, but it looks to me like Ukraine is getting it's teeth kicked down it's throat. Reports from the front are horrifying, even shocking to the conscience.

It's not that the sponsors of the war care about any of that, but the question remains: what could they possibly hope to achieve with a wider war? It looks to me that whatever reasonable scenario you choose, it will just be a wider disaster for the West.