What has the US gained?

>They have eliminated nearly all energy pipeline routes going from Russia to Western europe. These changes are in all likelihood permanent no matter what happens in negotiations.

>Replaced it with US LNG.

>Opened an alternative corridor for pipelines going from the Caspian sea to Europe, making sure the cheaper Russian gas never entices the europeans again. Also cut off the most important land route between Russia and Iran in the process and put a US footprint in the region.

>They put Nato right on Russia's largest border all the way to the arctic.

>They overthrew the Russia-friendly government in Syria and put their own puppet instead, a gas pipeline going through it and into turkey and europe will likely be built there. Further wedging europe and russia from ever building meaningful economics ties again.

>They have made Europeans spend a fortune buying US weapons, which will continue after the war with the newly increased Nato quotas.

>They got Europeans to pay a single sided 15% tariff on all exports to US.

>An anti-Russian puppet government has been put in Moldova, and to some degree in Romania.

>Most of all, they have successfully obtained a highly militarized puppet state right on Russia's most critical border with no natural defense in between. A state who has tremendous hatred for Russia and who will obey any commands from their masters once the war is over and can be used to put pressure on Russia in various ways whenever it will be needed. A state who can be used to conduct assassinations inside Russia with plausible deniability. But most of all, a state that will force Russia to maintain a much larger peacetime army than they needed before.

What has Russia gained?

>A land bridge to Crimea and half the of Donbass