In a word, threatened. While US policy and that of the West during the Cold War was one of containment, and didn't threaten the Soviets directly, you have to remember that Russia had been invaded by Germany twice in the last half century, so the formation of the NATO alliance with hundreds of thousands of troops and eventually nuclear weapons made them feel insecure, and rightfully so. They formed the Warsaw Pact alliance in response to NATO, pure and simple.
I think the Soviets were less threatened by our ANZUS alliance (Australia-New Zealand-US) or the alliance with Japan, but it did pose more of a threat to China and to communist expansion in the region which the Soviets supported.
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