Putin recently accepted that he got duped by NATO and US in 2000s. If west thought they could control Putin's oligarchy by sanctioning the Western markets and the oligarchs, they don't know about Putin and Russia itself. They gave Putin a free hand to push pro western oligarchs out of Russia and seize everything for the Russian State. If US chooses to be more violent Putin will not hesitate to put a hammer and sickle flag on kremlin 🤣.