The United States should place Russia on its list of terrorist-supporting nations and slap the Kremlin with economic and diplomatic sanctions, The Weekly Standard says in an editorial published Monday.
"The international effort to punish Vladimir Putin for the March 4 attempt to assassinate Sergei Skripal and his daughter is an enormously encouraging sign that free nations are at last turning against the Kremlin and its dictator," the conservative magazine's editorial board writes.
"Placing Russia on the list with North Korea, Iran, and Syria would bring a host of economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Kremlin and so help to make life more difficult for the oligarchs that prostitute their wealth and influence for Putin's goals.
"For a variety of complicated reasons, both the American left and the American right now favor taking a far tougher line against the Putin autocracy. Now is the time to call Russia what it has become under Putin: a friend of terrorism."
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