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That is correct. Russia and the US have always used proxies in their wars in order to avoid direct confrontation something that happened between Russia and China in the so called Sino Soviet border conflict.

The problem is as Guterres, the UN chief. has pointed out the mechanisms put in place during the cold war to de-escalate things are now non-existent and accidents and misjudgements can happen.

One thing that goldbugs have to realize is that Russia in economic and military terms is weaker than the USA., thus their use of a strategy called asymmetric war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare