Is Puttonm the Principal Decision Maker?

If putonis deposed or get sick, and there is some speculation that his health is not robust, let's say he's replaced. But he's replaced by more of the same, right? He's replaced by the existing russian establishment. I don't know that with that establishmet, they might try to stop the conflict or break it up. The problem there is you have s as well as people from across the former soviet union who remember a lot of grandiose promises after 19 91 about what the united states and western europe were going to do to transform the countries of the region.