Obviously, there is no sense to it. Taking in hundreds of millions of massive hostile populations (in war) from Pakistan & BD without any obvious economic benefit is a very bad idea.
But these things usually don't make lot of sense. Specially when it gets that much ideological. There is not much reasons why Russia with the biggest land mass in the world & with the most natural resources would want to take over a three time poorer country (in GDP per capita) and want take in a massive adverse population.
NATO expansion is an issue, but not
the issue. it starts to make more sense when you read this–
en.kremlin.ru
Or know this guy
While it is a good thing that India is democratic country institutionally, so power is not highly concentrated in one man's hand & government structure is not the same. (There are checks and balances) But then again, Putin is supported by the majority of Russians. When you build up such narrative consistently with a large audience, no matter how absurd it looks from the outside, at some point it becomes a real thing. (At least for the audience as
@KamBhakth pointed Out.)
I hope, India's democratic nature does not blackslide, but sometime it does not take much long even for more mature democracies to get into gutter.
If it were Myanmar instead of India, nobody would have bothered much. Because there is no asymmetry in conventional power. But when there is a substantial asymmetry and power gap, we have to take these stuff more seriously and definitely can’t rely on large neighbour's good will when it comes to national security. This is simple realpolitik.
When these people are saying it for a long time, you better believe they really mean what they say. (Putin was saying the same stuff for a long time but West thought he really didn’t mean, not in this way) Maybe Yogi will become the next prime minister for BJP. I mean he already is a chief minister, who knows. Things aren’t defusing, instead it is getting more extreme little by little each day.