Not going to happen.
If you said that in April I would have agreed with you. But not today in October.
Feb 24, if instead of invading Kyiv, putin just absorbed the dpr and lpr into Russia then NATO and the usa would do nothing, Zelensky would have been voted out in a year and NATO would continue to crumble.
Salami tactics worked.
But Putin’s ego got the better of him and he is losing all he gained