How to prove this inequality about primes?

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Let $p_n$ be the $n$-th prime. How to prove

$$2\prod_{i=2}^{n}\binom{p_i}{2}<\left(\frac{\prod_\limits{i=1}^{n}p_i}{\prod_\limits{i=1}^{n}p_i-\prod_\limits{i=2}^{n}(p_i-2)}\right)^{p_n^2}$$

for large n.

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Taking the logarithm : $$\ln 2\prod_{i=1}^n {p_i \choose 2}= -(n-1)\ln 2+\sum_{i=1}^n \ln p_i+\ln (p_i-1)$$ $$=(1-n)\ln 2+2\sum_{i=1}^n \ln p_i+\sum_{i=1}^n \ln(1-\frac{1}{p_i})$$ $$\sim (1-n)\ln 2+2\sum_{i=1}^n \ln p_i-\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{1}{p_i}\sim (1-n)\ln 2+ 2p_n- \ln \ln p_n$$ where I used that $\sum_{p < x} \ln p \sim x$ and $\sum_{p < x} \frac{1}{p} \sim \ln \ln x$ that is the prime number theorem and the Mertens theorem

what do you get following the same lines for the RHS ?