“The cold war with Russia, festering since 2014 and the U.S. backed coup in Ukraine, may be potentially even more menacing than the new cold war with China. If the armed standoff between the Ukrainian military and the Russian-supported separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, becomes — by miscalculation or design — a conventional war between Russia and NATO, it could escalate into nuclear war.”
https://uspeacecouncil.org/the-escalating-crisis-in-ukraine-poses-an-imminent-threat-to-world-peace/