Sentence:  And what are the causes of the emerging <WSD>Cold War II</WSD>? Comes the retort: Putin has put nuclear-capable missiles in the Kaliningrad enclave between Poland and Lithuania. True, but who began this escalation? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The ongoing tensions between the United States of America alongside its European allies and the Russian Federation in the mid-2010s; sometimes called the new "'''US–Russian Cold War'''"