The way you posed the question implies that the West and Russia are in a employer-employee type relationship, with Russia being the subservient employee, where

The way you posed the question implies that the West and Russia are in a employer-employee type relationship, with Russia being the subservient employee, where the boss can fire, replace, demote, etc, and them have little to no control over such events. I think this is a poor analogy. (For context: I despise this aggressive Russian government.)