Smouldering embers? what's the connotation? "As has become depressingly routine in Europe, the row over the UN compact has little to do with its ostensible target and everything to do with the smouldering embers of a culture war that the drastic reduction in illegal immigration since the surge of 2015 has failed to extinguish." I run across the sentence above when reading the Economists. When translating, ‘smouldering embers’ is often translated into 残余灰烬 or 余烬 in Chinese，which carries the connotation of something is dying, not going to rebound and strike back. My question is does ‘smouldering embers’ carry the same connotation? Or does it mean the culture war is still burning dangerously and not going to exit the stage without a fight? Thank you very much