[bell-cot]

Cynically put, when he is no longer convenient for Putin to keep around.

In another sense - he's a minor warlord, with ~50,000 armed followers, in a huge country. He controls ~zero of the infrastructure, air forces, etc. which would be needed for him to mount even an obviously-doomed bid to topple Putin.

[EA-3167]

On that note, here's a new development: https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-war-russia-nuclear-647a54...