and only with the onset of detente, after the collapse of the ussr, the us secretary of defense william perryn to the doctrine of mutually guaranteed security. but, as practice has shown, not for long. at this point, nuclear deterrence. already exists between india and pakistan, but there is also a mechanism of nuclear deterrence of a weak state against a strong one, demonstrating to the aggressor that even if he achieves his goal. then he will pay an unacceptable price for it, this is the concept north korea adheres to. very often we are faced with a situation where we slide into such big big confrontation, politicians hope that some limited amount of funds will be enough to scare, to convince the opponent to kill the opponent. as a rule, this turns out to be the case. this is not the case and this is where this phenomenon of creeping uncontrollable escalation comes from, which has been encountered many times throughout history, but we are talking about conventional weapons, yes, if we are talking about great powers, then with conventional weapons, if we look at the largest war of the second