Spicey McHaggis
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It may actually be useful for him to take down an oligarch or two. Helps corruption slightly, serves as a warning to the others, shows the public you did something, and you get to seize some assets.Kind of depends on whether or not he has the political capital for it. Supposedly part of the reason that their defense minister Serdyukov was replaced with Shoigu back in 2012 was that Serdyukov's work at cleaning up corruption and reforming the military made him too many enemies who wanted him gone. So Putin replaced him with career brownnoser Shoigu who was mainly good at not rocking the boat and reversed some of Serdyukov's more unpopular decisions.
So there's probably some oligarchs who directly benefited from the corruption that's lead to some of the problems that Russia's military has faced during the invasion. Meaning Putin might have to choose between maintaining their support, or fixing some of the problems of the military.