We aren't "close to nuclear war"
What we do have is the largest country in the world waging a war of destruction on largest country in Europe.
It's a war of ethnic cleansing and genocide just as surely as Hitler's
The only difference that I can see in scale is that Putin is not gassing Ukrainian children, merely raping them and having them deported and adopted by russians.
In the Russian press today, in relation to proposed measures which would finally kill off what little free speech remains in the country, a deputy even says" We don't necessarily need to appoint our own Goebbels" ... As I said above, they were probably wise to drop the "denazification" propaganda in favour of satan :-)