Russia stands to benefit enormously as the resource storehouse and connecting tissue of a Eurasian economic bloc based on internal lines of communication, no longer stymied by American/Western sea power.
This is why America is fighting a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, and a secret war in eastern Syria, against Iran.
It's the old British Empire "Great Game" updated to a global scale. See the Mackinder "Eurasian Heartland Theory" stuff above to Mark Twain.
