and sometimes these things, as they said, they do become war but more often it's these subwar level fights and conflicts and simmering weirdo standoffs and i mean it when i say weirdo because before this fight they are in right now, for example, over people from all over the world being able to go to be belarus, there was a big round of tensions between russia and belarus because russia said belarus violated its ban on importing western foods. when the united states and european union and western countries put sanctions on russia, they said we're not going to import any russian foods and belarus violated that ban and that was a truly weird one where russia ended up doing these photo-ops where they burned up piles of good food and drove tanks over boxes of fruit and cheese and made a big show