Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon yesterday made a good case that President Joe Biden should “escalate the Ukraine war.” Gurdon is right, but that’s only part of the equation. The whole world should get tougher against Vladimir Putin’s thuggery.

Now that the world has seen irrefutable evidence of the atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, and now that Ukraine’s brave military and citizenry have sent those forces into retreat from the Kyiv region, the case for and means of a worldwide response are more evident.