NS returned its value in energy sales and nobody cares about it much anymore in Russia.
There is universal understanding that putting too much in Western relations was a strategic mistake, hence the pivot to Asia.
Let NS be the issue haunting the European relations and be the example for non-Russian players who thought to invest in the European business and looking elsewhere as we speak.
Asia has everything in terms of consumer market the West has to offer and then some.
Regarding military reputation, professionals don’t care all that much about popular propaganda you are getting.
India and China are laughing looking at a small Russian contingent single-handely disarming the entirety of the de-industrialized NATO, which can’t even produce enough ammunition to sustain a (small) real war.