Yes putin can do few crimes here and there few shootings little panic but at the end he will end up like all others:
Hitler, ghadaffi, sadam husein,escobar....and so many others who think they can be tought enough.
But here is only the only ways how it might end:
1. Usa will remove putin and replacing with western kind of leader like zelensky.
The usa will remove putin anyways one way or another at least thats the plan biden accidently said this but its decided putin must go and decision is done in usa.
The process of removal of putin:
1. They send him to war tribunal if they do that putin will use nukes or create more chaos as he will be cornered so he knows he will lose anyways but he will go until to the end he will go in full scale war becouse he knows he cant win that war against all the world anyways.
2. Putin will disapeare like bin laden was hiding or some wrstern country will try to help to hide putin...then we might hear about putin is dead or sick or something like this.
Then if putin is removed one way or another there will be new leader installed and life continue normally.
Also there is possibility someone try to kill putin off course but how do we know wich scenario will most likely happening ?
As everything is logical first we know that china not gona help russia as china is under usa order even binance was finaced by usa wall street morgan stanley so china will do as usa tell them to do.
I don't know what made you so certain that all your conclusions were certain to happen. But after all these months of conflict, would you consider changing your positions a little?
Putin is not a gang leader or a militia leader so that he is to be eliminated in the manner that happened with Bin Laden or Mullah Omar. Nor is he the head of a modest economic and socially disjointed country to be disposed of in the manner of Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. He is the president of the second most powerful country in the world that has thousands of nuclear warheads and has many bases around the world in addition to its allies spread all over the planet.
As you know, assassination attempts happen and may succeed in the United States, but we have never heard of an assassination attempt on a Russian president, whether to praise the Soviet Union era or beyond.