Is the UK in danger from Putin aggression?

You would have thought Putin had enough on his mind dealing with Ukraine and Washington and oil sanctions etc but it seems he has told the Russian navy to play dangerous war games with the UK. There is a huge fuss about the arrival of an intelligence-gathering ship disguised as an innocent research vessel off Scotland. The Defence Secretary John Healey has issued a warning to Putin, saying he knows what the Russian president is up to and he is watching, and if the ship approaches further south into UK waters, he is ready to take action. What, will the spy ship be sunk? Russian spy ships off Scotland have been a fact of life ever since the Cold War was invented. It's not new. The only new thing is that the present government has decided that Putin is declaring a sort of step-by-step war with the UK, underlined by the fact that for the first time the spy ship fired lasers to blind the pilots of maritime patrol aircraft monitoring the progress of the vessel. That's what's new, demonstrating that spy ships have now been given new orders to be provocative and dangerously aggressive. Whether it's a good idea for the government to effectively declare war on the spy ship if it enters UK waters is a moot point. But Putin now knows that if the vessel ventures an inch or two into UK waters, it might just get a surprise. A shot across the bows, perhaps. It's all potentially risky stuff. But Putin is getting away with too much these days which makes the latest war-ending peace proposal from Washington to Moscow vis-a-vis Ukraine even more reprehensible - the old but revitalised land-for-peace formula.It will die a death, like all the previous so-called peace proposals.