How does the West make money? We’re giving away billions worth of military equipment and ammunition. While also implementing oil and gas bans that will hurt Western (the EU mostly) economies really bad.
A Marxist analysis would see the whole thing as a conflict between competing spheres and sectors of the international capitalist class that has broken out into open violent conflict. Contradictions in interests that were not resolvable by statecraft or other means are now being "resolved" through wholesale destruction.
Which is disturbingly similar to WWI.
1. Many countries are dumping old military equipment on ukraine and re-stocking with new. (Profit for the military equipment providers)
2. The gas bans mean US based LNG is going to be transported to Europe as alternate gas source (profits for providers and transporters)
The exonomy will be hurt in some ways (mostly impacting regular people) but it will benefit quite a few buisness sectora (on the expense of others)
So I don’t think the West is in it to make money. Not at all. If it was up to the Eastern EU countries they would send their armies to fight in Ukraine. They are scared of Russia. That’s their primary motivation, not profit. Other EU countries are alarmed but they lack the traumatic experience of Soviet occupation so they are less eager to fight. Still they are smart enough to realize if Russia succeeds the Baltics or Poland could be next. So the EU helps out of self preservation.
The US just sees this as an opportunity to damage Russia, they prefer to stretch this war out. The EU wants it to end as fast as possible.
I don’t see a profit motive.