As tensions heighten between the United States and Russia over the standoff along Ukraine’s border, so too does the risk for nuclear conflict, according to Russia scholar Clint Ehrlich. Most voters today don’t fear nuclear disaster, says pollster Mark Meckler. “When I was growing up, that was a thing. We haven’t really talked about it since the breakup of the Soviet Union,” Meckler, the president of Convention of States Action (COS), told The Epoch Times. “That’s not part of the public consciousness.” But with tempers flaring between leaders over the situation in Ukraine, Russia has threatened to deploy strategic forces to Venezuela and Cuba. This poses the risk of the geopolitical landscape returning to something reminiscent of the Cold War era, said Ehrlich, a visiting researcher at Moscow State Institute of International Relations at MGIMO University. “This is really a global standoff that isn’t just limited to the borders of Russia …