Unless there has been a permanent transformation of a Russian ideology that would align Russian interests with that of the interests of the US and the western powers, the west should maintain the strategy of containment as expressed by Kennan.
However, as of now, the overall interests of the west are not the same as the interests of Russia, and Russia is by no means among the West in terms of GDP or any other economic or democratic standard.
Instead, Russia is a will be for the foreseeable feature an economic basket case that lacks the democratic institutions that define the West.
We should deny them a warm water port because they are not Democratic in the Western mold?
Should we use whatever military force is necessary to accomplish this goal?
You have it backwards. It's we who should align ourselves with the current (now going on for 25 yrs and growing) Russian ideology.
They are, anti homosexual agenda, pro life, pro family/marriage, a united democracy with +70% Putin support, anti sharia and caliphate to top it off. The list is a lot longer.
In the ME supporting Assad they accomplished more in one year countering our 5 years supporting the brotherhood re Egypt and Syria at a fraction of the cost.
The "interests of the western powers" has submitted to a take over by Islam over Christianity and western civilization as we known it. Do you want that?