That's putin (pun intended) the cart far out ahead of the horse.Absolute fact. They also cannot avoid a total collapse in oil and gas production that will take a decade AFTER regime change and stability is returned to restore. And that is WITH western help.
But dang it, and listen to me this time....
We MUST finish Russia OFF, for good, this time. Not another dime of foreign investment goes into a defeated Russia until she surrenders with accountability to OUR satisfaction ALL nuclear weapons, delivery systems, manufacturing systems, etc.)
Modern day in comfort without nukes, or stone age, with non-deliverable nukes.
Choose.
Russia will not surrender. They have no need to surrender. They are not being attacked.
At best, there will be a negotiated cease-fire. If Russia said today that they were exiting Ukraine, within a year many of the sanctions would be lifted. There might be some noise made about reparations.
Russia will only surrender if they are engaged in a shooting war that enters Russia. Hopefully that won't happen, but if it does, then we have to hit them with overwhelming force and then everything you said makes sense.