As the gravity of how bad this looks for Russia sets in, I think the retreat will accelerate astonishingly.

I don't understand the mechanisms by which this would take place, could you explain it to me? It's not like the world hasn't been killing putin in effigy, blaiming russia for every conceivable problem accross the world since the war started, and insinuating that their government are nazis, barbarians, demons, etc. Against that kind of ideation it seems to me like actual piles of dead bodies weight very little.