DESPITE the peace and joy of Easter, the world’s folly marches on. The Philippine media have tried to keep the story away from the public, and even the Western press appears to have opted to play it down, but the move of 27 like-minded countries to punish Russia for a poisoning incident whose perpetrators have yet to be identified—and Russia’s spoken determination to retaliate “in kind and more”— can only have unwanted global consequences.