“Putin merely sees that as a bonus.”
He probably does...
It means the West (Meaning the U.S. Taxpayer, of course) is going to have to pony up the subsidies to keep Ukraine stabilized, that the Russians were paying for two decades.
The New Cold War will do to Russia what the old Cold War did to the Soviet Union, smash it to pieces.
Good for Russia. They need the money, anyway. (Making one wonder why the Russians are scrambling to find a way to give handouts to the Ukrainians).