Completely unlikely scenario, more likely case from history would be something like https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/europe/turkey-syria-russia-military

Completely unlikely scenario, more likely case from history would be something like https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/europe/turkey-syria-russia-military-plane.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/europe/turkey-syria... but that doesn't mean it leads to nuclear escalation.