If you call the SMO a war his regime will arrest you, even though Peskov just referred to the "SMO" as a war.
The idea that VP saved us from nuclear war when he started a war of choice against a sovereign neighbor is beyond QAnon-level surreal. My Jewish space laser may be the only cure for the parallel reality you live in which portrays the genocidal land-based colonial empire and subjugated peoples prison warden Russia as anti-imperialist.
All of the last three imperial men left standing deserve to die. But genocidal Russia richly deserves to be at the head of the execution queue. Then Uighur murderer and would-be Taiwan invader China.
As KGB defector and "useful idiot" term coiner Yuri Bezmenov said, in the neo-Stalinist order Putin wants you would be among the first useful idiots to be taken out and shot. Be thankful you're free to safely indulge in your fantasies thanks to the WESTERN constitutional rule of law you so enthusiastically denigrate. In the mythologized Russia and USSR you dream of you wouldn't last five minutes longer than the Spanish and Italian communist exiles Stalin fed so efficiently into his gulag.