continued backing of the SDF risks conflict in Russia

I am starting to think (perhaps just optimistically) that Russia knows the regime has no long term future and that the regime trying to continue to run things the way they always did will just end up draining Russian blood, money and reputation on a doomed attempt to keep Orwell's boot stamping on a human face forever. They are looking for a way to force the regime out of existence while securing their own interests in the process and securing control of that process but the regime (and Iran) would instead prefer to just keep going with the same corrupt personnel and their same bad old ways because they believe (and this war has furthered that belief) that brute force can indeed hold back the tide of progress.

In other words Russia needs a way of forcing the regime and Iran to accept the inevitable and may not be all that adverse to the SDF holding up a mirror to the regime's brutality if they think it could pressure the regime to change its ways.