If you believe this war will end in 6 months, you know nothing about RuZZia unless you mean the West will get bored of supporting Ukraine and will stop delivering it supplies, thus forcing it to cede a part of its territory to RuZZia. If Putain dies or is replaced, there won’t be anybody nicer as a RuZZian leader. Polish journalists describe the RuZZian future leadership as a “collective Putin”. The RuZZians don’t like democracy, as they have never had it apart from a few years under Yeltsin and the Novgorod Republic a few centuries ago. Democracy is associated with a humiliation, RuZZia losing its relevance, instability, an economic crash, empty shelves at shops, etc.
The RuZzians are the ancestors of the Mongol Empire and they love when their leader is harsh. Just see Stalin’s popularity that has skyrocketed in this century. Unlike people in the West, the RuZZians are ready to suffer a lot for its leadership to achieve their goal.
Your leaders tried to impose democracy on Afghanistan and Iraq and it didn’t work. It won’t work in RuZZia either.