Half of humanity held its breath yesterday after listening to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assure that a third world war would be “nuclear and devastating” a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukrainian territory. “The third world war would be nuclear and devastating.” US President Joe Biden, an experienced man, had commented that the alternative to war is only sanctions, but Lavrov, according to information from Russian news agencies, warns that the answers to them would be nuclear war. He stressed that the only alternative to the imposition of sanctions would be the “start of...