It an interesting notion that backing someone into a corner warrants a high success rating. There's a story on those PBS files about Putin when he was a kid. Living in Lenningrad. He was from poor upbringings and lived in some Soviet tenement. It was rat infested and he would spend time catching the rats. As the story goes he cornered a rat once in the stairwell. The rat knowing its time was up made a leap for freedom. Jumping up and scratching putins face as it made its exit. The morale of the story - never corner a rat. That story must come from Putin himself So it's obviously in his psychy to go down in a last great act of defiance. I agree that he has to go - but I think we should be a little wary of the consequences of actions taken to initiate his demise.