OR an even more hardliner could arise and:
Place a more aggressive stranglehold on the EU
Provide more support to Syria
Algin more closely to both Cube and Venezuela as well as with China to put more pressure on the US
No one has any clue how things may turn out.
The largest faction of Russians who oppose the Kremlin’s way of waging this war aren’t pacifists, but nationalists (or downright Communists) who want it to be a lot harsher.
Anyone in the West who thinks that deposing Putin will result in a milder, gentler Russia is deluding themselves.