Early Monday morning, the Trump Administration announced that is expelling 60 Russian diplomats in response to the attempted murder of an ex-Russian spy in the United Kingdom, effective immediately. The Administration also said it would be shuttering Russia’s consulate in Seattle over concerns that Russian officials there spied on a nearby U.S. Navy base and on a Boeing research and development facility.
According to NBC News, the move was accompanied by harsh words from the White House, suggesting not just that the expelled diplomats were “cloaked” members of a vast Russian intelligence network, but the U.S. was taking action “in response to Russia’s use of military grade chemical weapons on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in this ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world.”
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