Indeed. Putin will still likely prevail in conquering Ukraine, but there is no way he can hold it. His war was premised on the Ukrainians not being a real nation and not being willing to fight for their country. He was very wrong on that.
This is three level chess. A game of wits ( watch the princess bride). The world is being played by Globalist for their own gain. Putin will win in the end and the world will lose. He is a pawn, how long he last doesn’t matter. The Ideal lives on. Good against Evil are the players.
“but there is no way he can hold it.”
It’s certainly hard to imagine him successfully holding a country as big as this one with a population of 40+ million most of whom who hate him and don’t want the Russians there. The only way I can imagine him possibly pulling it off is if he succeeds in running maybe 20-30 million Ukrainians out (i.e., depopulating the country and “cleansing” it of pretty everyone willing and able to fight him)... and then replacing them with cooperative folks willing to relocate from Russia.
An analogy on a much, much smaller scale would be the “settlement” of Ulster (Northern Ireland) in the 17th century where the English basically ran the native Irish out (forcing them west and south) and replaced them with English and Scottish settlers. Did it work? Well, sort of, though the fallout and hard feelings from that obviously lingered for centuries.
Putin has no intention of occupy g the Ukraine. This is a search and destroy then go home deal.