The biggest threat to Putin is that Russians don’t like to lose wars; thus, you had Nicholas II overthrown largely bc of the catastrophic Russo-Japanese War and WW1; the Soviets were out of it bc of Afghanistan. I suspect that the news of their losses is spreading throughout Russia; all they need is a new Gen. Zhukov to change the power structure. Who will we get in power is a mystery - with 6800 nuclear warheads in that country and no effective ABM system here, we may long for Putin.
I agree, who comes after Putin could be even worse.
Also: Demoralized Russian/Soviet soldiers have a habit of mass-surrender. 600,000 were surrounded and surrendered near Kiev in “The Great Patriotic War.” Many were recruited under General Vlasov to switch sides and fight against Stalin.
Much of the armor seen at Twitter @UAWeapons appears abandoned in working order, that is, not merely stuck in deep mud. (There is a lot of that too.)
Can’t be great for morale for follow-on troops to see all the blasted and burnt Russian armor and trucks.
The Turkish “mini predators” seem very deadly, and they don’t need big runways or distant control like our Nevada-controlled Predators and Raptors.
And we are giving thousands and thousands of modern ATGMs and MANPADs to the Uke troops.
We might be seeing a warfare paradigm shift. Armor might be a modern deathtrap, suffering heavy attrition from infantry-controlled drones, as well as infantry-carried ATGMs. See the Tweet image by @corpsman I posted above.