Precisely.
This is an attempt to improve party discipline.
Hand out greatly desired benefits and great power (you kowtow or starve) and give them a good reason to stick with the program.
I’d say you are looking at the final hundred days of this government. When the depots and stores are empty...no one will reorder, and the whole system fails in a matter of days.
Venezuela ... the new North Korea where the army and elites eat.