according to the russians we're already at war with them so i wonder when we might see an obvious escalation; 

The United States is “directly at war” with Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday, after the close of the high-level week of the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

Lavrov made his remarks just over half an hour into a lengthy question-and-answer session with reporters, which was broadcast by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Twitter. He had been asked at what point would the U.S. be at war with Russia as opposed to being described as a “proxy conflict.”

“There are legal norms pursuant to which a country is identified as being a direct party to hostilities and Western countries are doing everything possible to avoid them, not to mention them,” Lavrov said. “They are effectively engaged in hostilities with us using the Ukrainians as fodder.”

Lavrov said that those who are following developments in the war can “know perfectly well that the Americans and the British and many others are engaged in hostilities.”

“They are waging war with us. There are deliveries of more and more volumes of quantities of weapons,” Lavrov said.........more.......