To stop Vladimir Putin from assassinating people on your soil, you need to make him suffer when he assassinates people on your soil. Failing to impose costs on the Russian leader, he is emboldened to further bloodletting.

In that context, Germany’s expulsion of two Russian diplomats on Wednesday is a totally insufficient response to what appears to be Russia’s latest state-sanctioned murder.

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