The slow slide into war, if Nato is going to achieve a defeat of Russia it will need to put OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS into this meat grinder to be able to just operate the equipment that Nato has delivered. For heavy equipment it is a 6 month training timetable and 1 yr for the F16s. The diester is the Ukraine has lost to death and damage of their best personal and down to conscripts of teens and old men, given a few weeks of training and then dropped into the front lines. They are facing either Russian reservists or fresh fully trained recruits into a force over 700k, fully armed, well provisioned with food and water and motivated by Putin raising the motivation level through invoking that this conflict is equal to the Great Patriotic War. Russia has a remembrance day that has all those who's parents and grand parents Died in WW2 march with a photo of their family. When has the West celebrated VE-day? 1950?
Things are changing but observation must be done. Putting skin into the game as Saudi steps up to be the monitor.
It's hard to workout what Pakistan's Military will do, or can they do. It does not bode well as their military was caught behind in responding.
