Rand Corp Report From 2019: Overextending And Unbalancing Russia

 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html

Well, it's pretty much all in the report. Flooding the Ukraine with weapons. Financial sanctions on Russia. Hitting Russia's energy sector. Removing Russia from international forums and events (World Cup)...etc...etc.

Planned in advance...always by design.