If it is about the cold war, that would have been the USSR, not Russia. And they did act against the West (WWII disagreements aside, starting with the blockade

If it is about the cold war, that would have been the USSR, not Russia. And they did act against the West (WWII disagreements aside, starting with the blockade of West Berlin), they planned for attacks on Western Europe, etc. The idea that the USSR and Warsaw pact were somehow just reactive isn't true. Might the West have overestimated their capacity: probably yes (especially in later years), but the conflict was still very real.