Althea
Althea told me...
I saw a piece that claimed that historically, that's how dictators are toppled.The most immediate way to remove Putin is probably by inner palace coup.
No one is getting near to him with a gun, and the oligarchs only have indirect influence.
There is some speculation that the state security council only went along grudgingly with Putin's war. The decision was largely his and his alone. It's possible that the heads of the security and intelligence services on the security council could begin to consider Putin a liability.
Just speculation at this point.
Putin's raging paranoia is worse than trump's right now.
The security council is saying that they didn't vote for this attack. Just a 'protection' of very specific regions that Putin initially used to start this war.
I don't think his military will go through with a nuke attack. Much the same as our generals were set to remove trump if he ordered a similar attack.