

IMO this is just to test the base and get them used to him stay in the office until he dies then someone from his family takes over or maybe musk himself.
The goal is a dictatorship and if there will be an election it will be a sham one line putin has.
At this point we are the only consequence he can get. Congress refuses to act, courts do, but he started to ignore them, institutions are gutted.
This unfortunately won’t end without us going on the streets.