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Not half baked at all.
The west, mainly the US, trapped the Soviet Union in a long term war in Afghanistan by sending arms. That played a significant part in the eventual crumbling of the regime. If this one goes long, it could certainly bring Putin down and potentially get rid of Russia as an obstacle to US / western power in the region.
Is it in the interests of the Ukranian people? Most likely not as it will prolong the hell of war that they have to endure, the suffering, the death, the disruption, the fracture of civil society. It will also make the Russians up the ante. Instead of sending infantry in, they will feel the need to bomb every town flat first.
From the point of view of the average Ukranian civilian, the quicker it was over, the better. For an ordinary civilian, being on the losing side in a quick war is not necessarily a terrible outcome, but being in a never-ending war certainly is.