Escalation Signaling in Ukraine and Its Implications for the Strategic Russia-US Relationship

... crisis that heightened the risk of a direct military confrontation between the two nuclear-capable states. Russia’s and the USA’s escalation strategies and potential nuclear escalation risks In June 2020, Russia and the U.S. agreed on expert-level ... ... continue to loom large, not least because of existing and evolving concepts of escalation. Both Russia and the U.S. have designated hypersonic missiles and UAVs as pressing military threats. Russia’s ‘Fundamentals of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence’ ...