This goes both ways, and numbers matter.
They have enough ammo?
Visions of Ceaușescu.
Visions of Ceaușescu.
*Square km of USA =
3.797 km ×2
*Square km of Russia proper =
17,098,242 km x2
*Square km of Russian controlled CIS economy and battle space =
20,368,759 km x2
If Russia formally retakes the rest of Ukraine, reconnects Kaliningrad to Belarus, and retakes the Balkans, the number of square km and people and resources under direct control of Moscow will increase significantly from what it already is. Especially with Ukraine.
Moscow’s CIS military and police control could then have millions more young men to draw from.
Putin could well do this.
However, having studied the CIS, and as the Military Headquarters of the CIS military has always remained in Moscow (since before the official planned “dissolution” of USSR), and CIS governmental HQ is in Kremlin controlled offices in Minsk, why would Putin need to do this?
Kazakhstan is already fully integrated into, and fully compliant with the Kremlin controlled CIS.
All three original treaties, and subsequent CIS agreements and subordination of CIS members (including full reciprocal compliance with Moscow/Minsk finance, economic, energy, trade, police, and military policy), which make up the geographic CIS, are already strategically subordinate in air, land, sea, and space battle space. CIS Subordination to Moscow has long been so complete, it even includes full integration and subordination of CIS member nation police and militaries under Moscow.
As such, the question of why Putin would carry out this takeover, when CIS members are already subordinate, needs to be answered.