Pretty much, the hope is that he'll end up there once there is regime change (at least that's Canada goal here) and presumably the new guy in charge wants to make nice with the West. Do wonder what things will be like with Russia going forward, as Massicot (I think) had wrote, Russia's too big and important to try to treat like the DPRK.
US trying to get Abrams to Ukraine sooner :
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-21/us-will-speed-up-the-delivery-of-abrams-tanks-to-ukraine?srnd=politics-vp
"Less complex German tanks" seems a bit backhanded, heh