The West’s attention is focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine, but this Western attention is not a constant nor a given. Putin has achieved some of his advances over the past 20 years simply by outlasting the West in the information space. The West should provide Ukraine with weapons at the pace and scale that matches the requirement of a Ukrainian campaign to expel Russian forces and liberate its people and land.
Except that the 'advances' Putin has made over the past 20 years have predominantly been in Russia's backyard (Chechnya, Georgia) or in places the West had effectively written off (Syria) - not much to crow about in the grand scheme. They've certainly made some advances in the West if you count nice houses, yachts etc, but all of these are now for nowt - they'll never their likes any time soon if at all, at least until the Ukraine issue is solved to the West's liking (reparations and all).
I do hope they think their (now) incremental gains in the Donbas are worth the cost to their military, economy, international reputation, long-term prospects as a nation etc etc.