I'd make the same bet, but it may take awhile.
Putin IS just like a mafia gangster. He will take out his opponents.
He's just not a threat to the west unless we provoke him into using nukes and he never would have entered Ukraine other than extremist Ukrainians purging ethnic Russians and Russian speaking people in the east that wanted to be free of Ukraine and NATO wanting to put missiles, biolabs etc.. into Ukraine and threaten the defense of Russia.
