[MaanuAir]

And? What’s the rest of the plan?

I hear people saying that, but this is very short term with no sustainable strategy.

Just genuinely pointing out he could be replaced by worse options, and you need to plan against it as well.

There is the guy, the system he built, the persons he chose to put in place, all incentivised to continue.

[dotopotoro]

You are right. Add to that, the constant and persistent info flow from russian media and incentives to “say the right things”, which raised whole generation.

[megous]

I'm pretty sure this fear of change at the helm is something all dictators will happily project out ("look, without me there will be chaos or worse"). It's likely not true. It's really impossible to predict what will happen once Putin is gone.

He'll die anyway sooner or later, and there will be a struggle for power regardless. Russia has a constitution, and article 81 describes how to get a new president via elections.

Current paranoid leader is waging major war and isolating the country, so it's hard to say what could be worse for the world. Maybe mobilization in Russia, but that may be a tough call for any newcomer.