Upping the threats just moves us close to WWIII.
“Low-level warfare has many tools, including sustained propaganda operations, NATO expansion, encircling Russia with US military bases, violations of the law of the sea, economic harassment, financial harassment – and biological and chemical warfare plans for purposes largely, at this point, of weakening and impacting Russian trade, economy, population, regime popularity or sustainability, as well as for false flags that as deniable attacks, could cause the Russian political leadership to retaliate,”
(Emphasis added by me)