When I was growing up we had live nuclear weapons flying along each others borders 24/7/365 and we were fighting the USSR not just Russia. NATO still exists the Warsaw Pact is LONG gone and Russia's ability to fight NATO (actually America) is so thoroughly degraded it would be like a world champion boxer in a fight with a homeless bum. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_... In addition American and Russian planes were shot down throughout the cold war.
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-to-air... Russia isn't preparing for nuclear war they are doing the only thing a gang of vodka soaked hobos can do when they run a big fuel station and fuel is being almost given away everywhere. Now they're waving their big guns around like they matter so someone will show them some attention. If Russia is hating the sanctions they are under now wait until he starts threatening his business partners with nuclear annihilation "buy my gas or I'll nuke ya!".
Bystander: "Is that local OAF waving around a nuclear weapon?" NATO: "Yeah don't mind him he only does that until the vodka runs out.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.