Let's see. Empty Grocery store shelves in othercountries, and Russian commanders shooting Russian wounded? Yeah, I can see the correlation. 

Good one, Dee! He shouldn't execiute too many of his troops however, because he doesn't have that many to play with..
Many people do not seem to grasp the position Russia, and more specifically, Putin is in. This once great superpower, is dying on the vine, and Putin seems to think that the only way of saving her, is to reconstitute the old USSR...and do it by force, if that is what it takes.
Peter Zeihan, the futurist who predicted the Ukraine invasion back in 2014, made this short video
(3+ min) in 2017, eplaining some of Russia's..or rather Putin's problems, and what he back then intended to do about it ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuhWA9GdCo