The US and Russia are drifting ever-more-rapidly into World War III - it's essentially the same way England and Germany drifted into WWI: being sucked in by their entangling web of foreign alliances.
The anti-neoconservative Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who had been the chief aide to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and had opposed America's invading Iraq,
spoke on March 2nd explaining how the U.S. and Russia are drifting ever-more-rapidly into World War III. He said it's essentially the same way that England and Germany drifted into WWI: being sucked in by their entangling web of foreign alliances.
However, as he sees it, the role that
Sarajevo played to spark world-war in 1914, is being performed this time by Israel. Instead of the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip igniting the war by assassinating in Sarajevo the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Benjamin Netanyahu is igniting this war throughout the Middle East, by escalating his campaign to conquer Shiites in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon - overthrowing and replacing the governments there (which would then become controlled by allies of the anti-Shiite Sunni regime in U.S.-Israel-allied Saudi Arabia), and also aiming ultimately to expand Israel itself, to take over Jordan so as to confirm biblical prophecy.
Comment: Those who haven't yet seen through the Skripal/anti-Russia propaganda are utterly incapable of valuing and appreciating the statesmanship, integrity and insight that Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has brought to the world stage. Their loss.