"Discounting the rebuilding of the Russian army and its return to Warsaw and Berlin, and who knows, Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris."
I think your misapprehending the situation. It isn't to somehow occupy countries, it's to end Liberalism End meaningful elections. Have one party states. Big Boss Putin can meet with Big Boss Trump and work things out.
What they are missing is nobody is going to want to work anymore. Not for bosses richer than God.