US President Joe Biden has said that any alternative to sanctions against Russia over Ukraine invasion would be the Third World War.

In an interview with blogger Brian Tyler Cohen, Biden said, “You have two options. Start a Third World War, go to war with Russia, physically. Or two, make sure that the country that acts so contrary to international law ends up paying a price for having done it”.

Biden has also noted that none of the sanctions are immediate but added, “I think these sanctions, I know these sanctions are the broadest sanctions in history, and economic sanctions and political sanctions. Russia will pay a serious price for this short term and long term, particularly long term”.