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That was always the British intention. Form supply lines via Narvik, put political pressure on them, move troops into the country if needed, and start squeezing Germany from the north. The Allies wouldn't withdraw as they did after France fell apart.

You certainly have a creative interpretation of events. There was never a realistic chance of invading the British Isles by sea, losses in Norway or not. It was a strategic victory because it forestalled the Allies from cutting off Swedish steel, potentially bringing Sweden into the war, and...

I mean decisively so the Germans don't have boots on the ground just waiting to take it back as soon as the Allies ran into trouble.

Kind of hard due to Stalin wanting to be lenient to encourage other Axis allied small states to defect. The only sorts of things that would get them to piss Stalin off enough to puppet them would be enough to actually cause the Soviets to lose the war, like help assault Leningrad in 1941 and...