Hmm not surprising considering Russia has been drafting ethnic minorities for their war instead of pulling from Moscow and St. Petersburg. As such, they've been taking a considerable number of losses for a war they didn't even want, and of whom losses Putin sees as expendable.
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Ruh-roh, bad news for Poopin!
So Muscovy's colonies gonna be free? Hoping for that, so many ethnic minorities men were sent to the meat grinder recently. They deserve better.
"Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!"
Frankly I don't think this is a realistic option that will lead to anything but more long drawn out protracted warfare
You could have said that about the collapse of all colonial empires, and it ended up being true for some of them - the Portuguese colonial war lasted 13 years in some places - but doesn't make it unrealistic.