"The world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned.
"We have been extraordinarily lucky so far," Antonio Guterres said.
Amid rising global tensions, "humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation", he added."
It's probably a series of miscalculations...
One being the weakening of the EU that gave Putin a perception that the Ukraine would be a doddle...
Well it hasn't been militarily, but it sure has put the world's economy into freefall...
Now we have this visit by Pelosi which can only taken by China as a provocation...
Right or wrong why the risk, and what does her less than 24 hour visit achieve?
China is now going to effectively put on show how a blockade of Taiwan would look...
All it would take is an itchy trigger finger to turn that show of force into all out conflict!