That's some spin of the UK side of things. When the USSR was looking in vain for an alliance with France or the UK, France and the UK instead made a pact with

That's some spin of the UK side of things. When the USSR was looking in vain for an alliance with France or the UK, France and the UK instead made a pact with Germany, handing Czechoslovakia to Germany. Insofar as the UK and imperialist powers seeking to conquer others by force - Scotland, Ireland, India, Hong Kong and the Opium Wars, Australia, Iraq, Africa from Egypt down to South Africa, I can go on...