That is not how the great powers think. Russia is not invading Findland, Belarus, or central Asian states. Russian is not invading Japan or South Korea. The whole narrative that Russia is invading its neighbors in Eastern Europe is cooked up by Western elites. Their goal has nothing to do with Russia being aggressive; this is about Russia bypassing the US dollar financial system through its trade with China and Iran.
And since the US dollar fiat money is based on the oil and natural gas, and you have a major producer of these commodities not using it on its trade, the Western hegemonic powers see it as a direct threat that they can't tolerate.
Their problem is, with Putin being in power in Russia, they found their match. He is not backing down, so we'll see where that ends.