viewing an event in isolation is foolish , events occur as a reaction to some other happening.
Bonzo seems to think Russia wants to take over the uk. historically Russia had a soviet empire called the soviet union , it could not adminster it any more, it fell apart ,,like most empires it had its day it becamoe over bureacratic and unwieldy, why would they want an ailing economy like the uk or want to take over Europe.The Russian Rouble is high what sense is their in invading europe, they have other markets to sell their gas etc, what use is marching into europe and the uk. they are more likely to take a leaf out of Chinas economic strategy

NATO has to have a bogeyman,mean while a lot of money has been made[ ON BOTH SIDES] out of selling armaments
China however is very clever it is investing all over africa in infra structre, a much more intelligent policy than either the usa or russia. I do not think they are doing it for entirely philanthropic reasons