That's literally what it feels like: being stuck in an objective (the planet) and you have a teammate that's SUPER gung ho about the fact he's got a bomb vest (nukes) on that will go off if he dies, and you're just praying he doesn't catch a stray round (attack) while shooting at people from the doorway (doing proxy war things or just straight up committing/supporting genocide/ethnic cleansing/war of extermination/etc) or lose connection (leadership going insane).
If any of those things happen, you know you're all toast. And it's all mostly outside of your control.
I hate to use video games as a metaphor for literal nuclear war and sorry for spelling it out like I'm talking to a child but I felt it was needed for clarity.
We're all on the planet together, and no one will ever be able to force everyone into submission, the more we fight the shorter time we have as a species.
Toss a rock at a shitty car? Terrorist
Shoot a thief that stole part of your life by denying you Healthcare? Terrorist
Plot and carry out a plan to kill people due to their political beliefs during a time you know you could have reason to be around them and use shady online services to help plan things in order to coerce political change?
.......... checks every possible definition to find a loophole
Not terrorism? poker face
10/10 government we have, just the best people, I'm super duper thrilled to be trapped in this shit hole country