I'll give you a hint though, forcing your two main rivals to grow closer and remove your main and only effective tool is a bad strategic decision.
The amount of economic, political and strategic capital they're burning over a country that has zero relevance to vital US interests (according to the famously Russophilic treasonmonger Obama, and he was right) is nuts.
But I don't think the regime in Washington DC knows how to do anything except double down. They can't compromise. Their message to 63 million Americans between 2016-2020 who thought they could vote their way into having a say in their own government was "fuck you, we're in charge

".
Their message to Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia is also "fuck you, we're in charge

"
Telling increasingly large percentages of the domestic and international audience to go fuck themselves isn't a very good approach in the long term. Treating everything as a zero sum game where ARE SACRED DEMOCRACY (

) must prevail or it's Literally Hitler time (again) is an inherently brittle approach to the world. But the elite classes in the West have been consumed by hubris for a while now.
When everything from tranny swimmers to policing in downtown Minneapolis to medical face masks to the territorial status of Lugansk is some kind of Woke Jihad in which the only choices are heroic progressive total victory or eternal reeeing and gnashing of teeth, no compromise is possible. They'll keep doubling down, because that's all they can do. Until they can't.