Putin is the calm one in Russia. If he dies and a hardliner gets in, the hard liners would rather exterminate Ukraine.
Putin is the calm one in Russia. If he dies and a hardliner gets in, the hard liners would rather exterminate Ukraine.
Are the hardliners going to raise the Moskva? Bring dead Russian soldiers back? Putin is already doing the maximum Russia can do. Escalating violence will just lead to more support for Ukraine from the west. A Russian energy embargo, massive increase in western arms to Ukraine, etc.
Right now the Soros EU is keeping the Russian war economy afloat. Without that support Russia is bankrupt.