Here's the deal, all empire building is villainous. With time and peace come malevolence. It's tidal balance, ed and flow.
When the revolution breaks the consentration camp of the mind, humanity will again strive in on prosperity under peace, until the cycle repeats.
The next of things has become a major backbone in the ability to aid frequency of the cycle.
Before conventional war is always psyops and espionage. This is just Russia playing the game. What is interesting though, is how a small island of people are not raising hell with their government for creating and propagating a situation that could end them entirely.
No-one should ever trust what you say as you are not capable of even admitting that you could be wrong. Sign of weakness. Good luck to you!