The only thing that can ‘get out of hand’ is that russia’s invasion of Ukraine gets repelled. Does that warrant a nuclear response? Apparently so, according to russia, and some of its FR cheerleaders
My impression of this conflict is that it is being used, at least in part, as a means to collapse Putin’s government. Whatever reasons Putin had to invade Ukraine, the NATO/EU members are now using the situation to topple Putin and crush Russia. And if they’re going to threaten him with that, Putin’s going to threaten them with retaliation. People cheerleading all of this aggressive posturing toward Russia are insane.