With the passage of lend lease it looks like Sammy is getting ready to give Vlad a real pounding strategically, I don't think it's just about defending Ukraine any more, other possibilities are opening up. If the retired intelligence and military types are anything to go by, both the intelligence and military communities are eager to go. Most know what Vlad is and have trained for this all their adult lives, others want revenge for him fucking over and humiliating America, using Trump, who he helped get elected. Well now's their chance and they are leaping at it and are not alone, it's been a repeat performance for decades in the EU too, Vlad has many enemies and no real friends.
I would expect trouble for Vlad in Belarus, Georgia and perhaps even Kazakhstan, to spread Vlad's military and purged intelligence services as thinly as they can and cost him as much as they can. This won't end with Ukraine and especially if Vlad doesn't sign a peace and even after he does, it won't go well either, because no peace will be signed while he is in Ukraine, even Crimea.