I don't believe they have designs on us at all. Their plan was just like ours. Defend our allies. The problem for both superpowers is that organized crime has taken over the mainstay of both governments and joined up with the corrupt global corporate crime syndicates to dominate all the wealth and power on the globe.
After WWII, Russia acquired the bomb. They realized it made it impossible for anyone to ever invade them again without suffering complete devastation of their homeland in return. That’s their motivation over all else.
I don’t buy in quite as much as you do on that, but man is inherently evil and we know the end is coming. In a way we hate that this is happening, but those of us who are Christians recognize it as something that will play in during the last days of evil on this planet.
I don’t like to get too far down the road into preaching. This is pretty much universally accepted by Christians in one manner or another.
We live in interesting times.