My business partner, before his aneurysm took him out, would say, "First a toy then a tool then a weapon"
The feckless West is about to find itself with half o' this & none o' that, when those feral NORKies enter the fight. Until NATO puts up air cover worth a damn and provides long distance munitions worth more than a bucket of warm piss, by New Year's Day, the Russians will be at the gates of Kiev.