Of course Russia will suffer too.. But, conquering half of Ukraine will give Russia strategic depth where they can afford some setbacks in a war against NATO. Russia is on their way to neutralize an enemy with 1/3 rd of Russia's population.. Defending the Baltics is impossible for NATO.. As per Estonia PM, Nato plans to take back Baltics from Russia, after 6 months of Russia rolling into the Baltics..
its like saying india will lose if they take back pok completely along with askai china nad some parts of Punjab and sindh with no muzzie population transfer to india due to the fact that china,what remains of pak and the ReSt oF tHe WoRlD will sanction us.
We can take the short terms sanctons and due to the conditions of the cultures of the world today, in the long term they will all come back to the table for business.
Long term victory matters more than short term victory and in the long term all states to the west of europe and the america and uk are having strong demographic problems and cultural problems too and these trends are also supported by leadership and policy.These guys are just blustering with NATO threats,in the coming ten years there wont be much of a will to support any war effort except some capitualtion and compromise like what is going to happen in ukraine war .
Russia despite its demographic problems which are not worse than that of europe(I am not only talking about raw numbers,but also culture and other political demographic problems) does not have self-destructing hatred towards its own people and culture.
Remember,some states need to be further analyzed to see the true reality,does it matter if your gdp goes up if your country is being colonized by subhumans.