If history is telling, Putin is heading for a very nasty ending, IMO. Czar Nicholas lost the Army and that was it for him. Even Putin's 300,000 strong thuggish private security detail SS (ZZ) can crack as their cousins and brothers and friends start disappearing. Also, he was harvesting the country folk who no one could hear scream but these city folks are a different matter and word spreads quickly like wildfire.