My guess is that if they just leave Kiev alone, Kiev will align with the Russia/China/BRICS/every-other-sensible-country block naturally since the all the West has to offer is sexual degeneracy and 'sustainable' anti-science economic suicide. At least once the petro-dollar system completely collapses in a way that nobody can miss.
You say a lot of dumb things. A lot. But thinking that if Russia just 'leaves Kiev alone' then they will just naturally align with Russia is just...incredible.