He’ll be replaced by a hardliner.
The Deep State in America has a lot of people convinced that if Mr. Putin is overthrown or removed from power that he’ll be replaced by a liberal.
This is a fantasy. It’s driven by the idea that the Deep State can divide up Russia, control her natural resources, and have compliant and corrupt Russian politicians who will do the bidding of the Americans and British.
The truth of the matter is that if Putin loses power, he’ll be replaced by a hardliner who will be far less restrained, more willing to directly confront the West and NATO, and may even go nuclear.
Western elites have failed to consider alternative scenarios to their poorly thought out plans for global domination.