It may well be a hollow Victory. If Russia goes to war it will be ugly. First sign—The Red Airforce—second sign, the Cyber attack, Third sign, Kiev oblierated in a nuke attack.
Yes, Russia could nuke its neighbors and is happy to use that threat to bully them to have its way. It could also round citizens up in neighboring countries, like it once did, and send them to the Gulag. Or it could ethnically cleanse ethnic minorities for security reasons, like it did to the Tatars. Or it could murder military officers in neighboring countries, like it did in the Katyn Massacre in Poland. Or Russia could deliberately starve millions of the Ukrainians like it did in the 1930s. We should never doubt Russia’s ability for cruelty and mass murder.