they could generate enough new forces to do that if they wanted using the same wasteful but effective strategy they are now but they're carefully balancing industry needs, political costs, deficit spending, and regime survivability. They have enough for what they think they need
They could do that in the sense that the resources do exist in-country to do that, but they cannot do it in the sense that it is seen as too large a political risk bsky.app/profile/opul...
That and they're very budget cautious, this is the first time they've significantly deviated spending from state revenues in 20 years and they're starting to really get into finance danger zones that they stayed ahead of for the first 3 years.