It's an outright conflict.โ€ On October 10th Former Soviet Premier Gorbachev is quoted as saying, โ€I think the world has reached a dangerous point.โ€โ€จโ€จThere are signs of a potential growing large scale conflict in nearly every geopolitical hotspot including Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, and the Philippines. Syria is seen as one of the trigger points to the renewed tensions between the United States and Russia