Yes and no to that. I can't say if it is the right move for him to reduce the strength of the known conspirators, but on the other hand adding people to that group who weren't fully comitted before.
I had talked to a pole in 2021. He suggested the russians stalling at the Dnipro and Poland taking the western parts of Ukraine to protect them from Russia. So that scenario doesn't seem so noncredible to me...
The only reason right now for Russia to remain in an ok economic shape is to pay more reparations after the war. Let's also do to them what they did to us in Germany and take their railroads
ATCATMS, Army Tactical Cat Meow System.
Alternatively: CWIS, Cat Warrior Integrated Support