Irrespective of what leaders in the West think, there was a titanic reorientation when the West weaponized their financial markets against Russia with the implicit threat that they will do so to others. The world took note and acted accordingly.
> Though Russia’s fossil fuel exports have started to fall somewhat by volume, as more countries and companies shun trading with Moscow, surging prices have more than canceled out the effects of that decline.
Russia built an oil pipeline to northern China ten years ago [1], and more recently added a gas pipeline along more or less the same route [2].
So the question is not about building a pipeline but about upgrading an existing pipeline's capacity.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Siberia%E2%80%93Pacifi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_Siberia