Diplomatic Circles

Western leaders shouldn’t throw stones from glass houses

Canada and other Western countries should review their own military records before casting a barrage of stones Russia’s way.

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced last week Canada would kick out four Russian diplomats in a co-ordinated expulsion by more than 15 Western countries. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

April 4, 2018

OTTAWA—The anti-Russian rhetoric and fear mongering in the West has reached fever pitch in the wake of the attempted assassination of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. British Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for what she pronounced to be Pre...

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