So far, it looks like the Deep State is getting what they want, and things will proceed more or less according to plan for awhile unless/until Russia slips in some kind of asymmetric "surprise." The US wanted Russia to attack Ukraine and it did. The US wanted Russia to impose some kind of sanctions on the US to scapegoat them for the Biden administration's failures, and they will. The next step is to roll all of the Covid-19 emergency infrastructure into a response to an economic emergency ostensibly instigated by Russia via new lockdowns of some sort. I don't think anyone in the Washington establishment really expected Ukraine to stand a chance against Russia, they just wanted to filled the place with weaponry to generate as much annoyance as possible for Russia. So from my perspective, everything that has happened so far is well in hand for the Deep State...for now.