I don’t believe anyone wants to escalate things to nuclear conflict. I don’t believe Putin has a literal button, there are logical people in the chain that woul

I don’t believe anyone wants to escalate things to nuclear conflict. I don’t believe Putin has a literal button, there are logical people in the chain that would prevent such an escalation. However in the non-zero chance that I’m wrong if humanity self annihilates then that will have been the story of us in the progression of the universe and time will march on without us which is what it is. In such a future we won’t be around to ponder it so it doesn’t matter. So I guess my coping mechanism is pragmatic realism about only worrying about things that are within my ability to influence. I’d recommend for you though only reading the news once a day for 15 mins and absolutely no social media or 24 hour news tv (especially any 24 hour news in the US) as anxiety is a reinforcing spiral and you sound like you need a detox.