How cornered? All Russia needs do is go home and the war is over.
Yeah it’s a little more complicated than that.
Here are a few things that might sour the Slava Ukraini camp:
*This war won’t end this year
*Russia will not lose to Ukraine
*Energy prices will skyrocket (killing many worldwide)
*Food prices will skyrocket (killing many more worldwide)
FWIW, I loathe Putin - not that it matters to folks.
Putin is “cornered” by his pride. His “big powerful superpower” tail is getting handed to him - what he planned to be a 3 day blowout has turned into around 22K Russian troops dead and a crazy number of tanks, APCs, aircraft, etc. And even their Black Sea flagship...
Add in the world is watching the now easily-proven war crimes ranging from mass kidnappings of children (thousands that have been taken to Russian internment/re-education camps to supposedly be adopted by Russian families (these were not orphans)... hundreds of young girls who were raped and now are pregnant by Russian troops... and the civilians brutally executed with hands tied - in the streets.