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Getting tough on Russia

• It was the largest-ever expulsion of Russian officials from the U.S., even more than in the darkest days of the Cold War.

President Trump joined a coordinated effort by at least 23 countries on Monday to retaliate for the poisoning of a Russian former spy in Britain. Sixty Russian officials and their families were given seven days to leave the U.S., and the Russian Consulate in Seattle will be closed.

While the European Union isn’t known as a model of decisiveness, its leaders came together to punish President Vladimir Putin of Russia and to support Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, our chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe notes. Even Hungary, which has warm relations with Mr. Putin, expelled a Russian diplomat.