My personal opinion: it will change in the same way as it changed when Russia invaded Crimean Peninsula - almost no one remembers, no one cares, it changed nothing outside of Russia/Ukraine. The world forgot.
1. I individually thought about if many times over the years.
2. I read or heard other people talking about it over the years.
You're being overly pessimistic saying nobody cares or remembers... We just can't do anything about it so we don't talk about it