I agree that no punishment will be able to untangle the rotted box of christmas lights that is his thought process, but I do wonder if the right medications could clear out enough of the cobwebs and let him see reality for what it is. I don't think it would change his hideous personality or suddenly switch on his ability to feel empathy, but being able to reflect on his actions and see himself how we see him might mellow him out a little. Not that I think for a second that he'd actually properly take any meds unless forced, narcissists rarely do, but it's honestly the only way I can imagine him ever see him changing in any meaningful way.
Also I agree that he's escalating, and we may see even more as he stews in his own rage and misery from this recent legal loss. Russ is an entitled misogynist who longs for power and control which is kind of the foundation of most male, heterosexual serial killers but thankfully Russ's body works just about as well as his common sense so it's hard to imagine him being a physical threat to
most people.
I'll elaborate a bit on this thought in a moment.
Russ thinks A LOT of very horrifying scenarios aren't rape. He also believes that if rape were legal that it wouldn't be bad nor have any lasting effects on his victim, and if she didn't like it she could close her eyes.
We also know that even if a woman finds him repulsive and states bluntly she doesn't want sex with him, he'll still try to force it to happen (see his encounters at brothels where he demands sex now now now). We know he doesn't care what any of his targets actually think or feel, so mixing this altogether you really do have someone who is ready and willing to rape a woman to get what he wants.
BUT
Russ also, more than anything, wants to brag about it. He wants to rub it in everyone's face that he has sex with 9s and 10s and I think even in his lizard brain he knows that if he breaks the rules to do so that he won't be able to tell any one. I honestly think that this and his physical inability to overpower people are the only things that are stopping him.
So with this and getting back to what I was saying in the response just above, Russ has the mind and will of a rapist but not the body or social encouragement to do so (like one may find in a frat house at a party college where the kinds of guys who film themselves running a train on an unconscious woman while high fiving and cheering each other on).
That said, if a switch in his brain ever flips from seeking sexual attention to prove mommy wrong for giving him up for adoption and instead switches to proving to HIMSELF that he's not powerless, well that's when I can see him getting dangerous.
One little pill in his paid date's drink or one little girl he can trick into helping him look for a "lost puppy" and his physical deformities won't be enough to keep his target's safe. I'm not specifically saying he's a pedo, just that a lot of serial rapists and killers like Bundy and Ramirez will "test" themselves with a child victim first, although it's rarely a crime they admit to and are linked to through forensic advances years later.
By no means am I saying this will happen, but it is amazing how much Russ shares with a lot of these infamous killers.
I don't know how much you guys know about, or are interested in it, but Berkowitz's was actually adopted and finding out that his birth mother was alive AND had kept his sister and not him (like Russ) was his main motivator.
Also Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, was obsessed with prostitutes and would make up stories to tell his friends about how they were so enamored with him that they wouldn't make him pay (Russ's dream). He also demanded a refund from a hooker when he invited her over but failed to get an erection so sex didn't happen. He was enraged to have paid for her time without getting his dick wet (sound familiar?) but instead of suing he stalked her, smacked her in the back of the head and robbed her.
None of that is any indicator that Russ will do anything in the future, I just find it interesting,
