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"Russia is in an extremely dangerous situation," trapped between the obligation to protect Russian citizens and the risk of escalating into "a new cold war" with the United States, Dr. Markov said.

Analyst Alexei Arbatov tells the liberal RBK Daily that the implications for Russia could be ominous - "if this situation ends up escalating into a new Cold War, the consequences for Russia would be far graver than they ever were for the USSR, since Russia is not a global superpower".

Will the cold peace endure, escalate into a new cold war or warm into a big thaw?

There were also fears on both sides that a trickle of rocket fire out of Gaza into southern Israel, and Israeli retaliatory strikes, could quickly escalate into a new war.

Independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh's stunning assertion Thursday that President Bush withheld personal notes on the Iran-Contra affair and took part in a six-year "cover-up" means the long-running investigation may now escalate into a new phase--with Bush himself a possible target.

Some ten years after it first began, the Iraqi insurgency has been fully reborn, and the conflict is escalating into a bloody new phase.

With unresolved border disputes and a history of conflict over the past few decades, the risk of a new conflict escalating into a regional nuclear war is high.

Diplomats lately have been warning of a chain of events they fear could escalate into a deadly new Korean War.

At a meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo, the league grasped for new ways to end a conflict that appeared to be escalating into a civil war.

Joe Durso of The New York Times wrote that Barr "angrily berated the manager while four other Giants clustered around to keep the confrontation from escalating into a fight".

If the conflict escalated into a nuclear exchange, modern civilization would be wrecked.