Lavrov Says Threat To Stability Could Be More Dangerous Than Cold War

Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting in New York City, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talking as he leads a meeting on multilateralism and the founding of the UN Charter, says that "As was case in Cold War, we have reached the dangerous, possibly even more dangerous, threshold,"

• Earlier, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres raised the issue of great power tensions and the risk of war via miscalculation: https://marketnews.com/sec-gen-great-power-tension...
• This sort of escalatory rhetoric is nothing unusual from Russian officials, but nevertheless sustained talk of the risk of the war widening beyond Ukraine's borders will garner attention from European nations, the US, and China.