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Originally Posted by blankall
I disagree on this.
The West can finally stick it to Russia economically. That's realistically their only weapon here. It's also the best way that the West has to pressure Russia's government into resigning.
All Russia is "gaining" from this is an acknowledgment from Ukraine of what they'd already imposed prior to the conflict. They're essentially trying to humiliate Ukraine. They are literally gaining nothing physical. There is no change in what was going on before the war, other than Ukraine ending the conflict in the East, which they had already lost.
Russia, assuming the sanctions have teeth, is, however, losing a lot economically.
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Russia would be getting Ukraine's giving recognition to Russia that parts of their sovereign territory are now independent (likely soon to annexed by Russia). So in practical terms, Russia will have succeeded in territorial gains from the war.