What was designed for Ukraine by better politicians like Henry Kissinger as a buffer between or a bridge connecting the east and the west should have been for Russia. Again, Russia is a western country, and the Russians think that way too. But now, the core west has lost Russia likely permanently. Russia will be from now and on a perpetually unsettling factor within the western world. Which is in fact good for China and the rest of the world that has suffered the west long enough.
Russia is now forced to search for its own identity. I suspect that the renewal of the so-called pan slavism is a response to this. Half pride, half bitterness, it isn't necessarily so scary, but this is just my guess.
The west could have absorbed Russia into its power zone and exerts enormous pressure on China and gives China a severe and hardly curable headache.
對比一下美、俄這两個大國特别有意思：美國是西方文明的嫡傳，然而膚淺粗鄙，它没有認識到需要西方文明作為一個整體統治世界，它自己作為西方文明的國家群中最强大的一個，它對世界的統治才能持久。然而現在，它的强大和驕傲使它認為可僅憑自己是一個國家就能達成這個目標，於是對歐洲的國家常常也僅以國與國之间的心态對待而欺凌之。
俄羅斯不一定有上述的覺悟，但身為西方文明的邊緣的事實使它在實際行動上按上述的原理去做了。然而，它却被被美國主导的核心西方拒絕了。
合理的不合理。