What could be better to torment the world into begging for a new world order to restore peace, than to have regional nuclear war.

Remember Putin keeps making the point that whatever the USA did in the past, he can do, e.g. Kosovo and Putin Crimea.

When the shit really gets hot, nobody is going to care about who owns the internet cables in the ocean, only that they've been selectively rendered inoperable.

Remember the powers-that-be, "whether by peaceful compliance or conflict, we will have a new world order".