RUSSIA is a big country that has a lot of potential to become a super power, the economy and military in Russia is so strong that it can make many countries such as Europe and the USA reluctant to Russia, and what is now being done is the invasion of Ukraine as an initial test of whether other countries can act decisively. and the facts as we see.
The only reason why the NATO hasn't bombed Russia till now is because the latter has one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. That is the difference between Russia, Iran and DPRK on one side, and Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Libya on the other side. If they had agreed to denuclearize when USSR disintegrated in 1992, then there would be no country called Russia now.