What 'theory', please?
I'm trying to explain Putin, the way he thinks.
Can you - and few others here - understand that in his way of thinking he's provided the VSRF with everything: money, social status, political endorsment, impunity from crimical prosecution, a blank cheque to rule over thier commands and troops as they like..... and they just fucked up?
It's exactly the same like in the case of Assad and that commedy called the 'Syrian Arab Army'.
So, why should he care about the VSRF?
....and what is so hard to understand about that?!?