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Plus Putin's been threatening nuclear war from the earliest days of the crisis.

In only that context, it's the EU's Cuban Missile crisis, not Putin's and it 'can't be handled the same way because of so many players.

In other respects not all all like that Cold War situation. It can't be defused so easily. Putin already went full tilt into war. He's a liar and a fantasist.