Putin said pretty much the same thing a few years ago. We seem to have deliberately forgotten, or rather our media has lobotomized the past; Putin warned that if the West kept pressing and pressing a spring, one risks it snapping back.
A bizarre detail. Germany stepping back onto the gore-covered world military stage, by sending contingent of soldiers to... wait for it... Australia, to prepare for an eventual Chinese invasion! Germany, reaching out across the world. What could possibly go wrong?